Tempo Ideas

Is there any planned release date for this feature? It's critical to forecasting cost and should be relatively easy to implement as you already have all the resources in both Cost Tracker and Planner, and the associated rates. If you could pull the forecasted hours into Cost Tracker and apply the rates you'd have a reasonable cost forecast. If you are still looking for someone to discuss this with, I'd be happy to provide input as needed and/or test out possible solutions.

Hi Danielle,

Thanks for sharing your idea. I've opened up a few more time slots. Please feel free to book a meeting so we can connect and discuss this further.

Thanks,
Sourabh Jagavkar
Tempo Product Management Team

Is there any further update on this? I tried to book a call through the link but it is no longer displaying any available times. I am really keen to know if and when this will be implemented.

We would like to be able to forecast using Planned Time and Cost Tracker. Ideally we want to be able to see planned time in cost tracker the same way we see logged time. We would then be able to plan a whole project and check the estimated costs ahead of the project starting.

Using Tempo Planner alone only gives us an estimate of hours but ideally we would like to be able to see this translated into cost. We could use this for quoting project work eventually.

Very interested to see how this is going to progress.

Hi All,

We are glad to announce that we are currently planning an MVP version of this feature. As a first step this would be available within the latest Project Hours Approval feature which would enable Project Managers to review planned time prior to approving actual hours spent on the project.
Here is a quick preview of the same:

As we plan the next phases of this, it would be great to hear your inputs. If would like to share your thoughts and use cases you can set up a call with me.

Thanks,

Sourabh Jagavkar
Tempo Product Management Team

This is super important and a quite basic feature. Should be easy to implement. Urgently needed here for some customers where we are thinking about implementing Tempo. But without this, it is only a part-cost tracker.

This is the most important missing feature imo!

This would be great, It's actually an expected function.

Glad this item is getting attention, awesome!

I think there's a lot of valid points for both Planned time and Remaining Estimate. We actually use both for their own purposes, therefore, representing both of them in Cost Tracker would be valuable. 

(Along that same line, Original Estimate may also prove valuable, even if just the total cost of all Original Estimates. Of course Remaining and Original estimate would have to use a "default" cost I imagine. And Remaining and Original estimate are harder to graph as they don't have date logs like Planned Time does.)

If I had to choose, my first choice would be Planned time for sure! Ideally:

• Graph planned time as the forecasted costs beyond the historic costs
• Display total $ of total 'past' cost + future "planned" cost

In addition it may not be difficult to also:

• Display total cost of Original Estimate (only) (using default cost rate)
• Display total $ of total 'past' cost + costs of remaining estimates (using default cost rate)

Just a bit of a brain dump :) :)

@Ingi I see your point about having the assignee on planner, but as the tasks progresses, remaining estimate will be much more accurate.

We very often simply use tempo planner to book  a developer for a particular project/epic for a week/month, not meticulously planning exact tasks there.

Thanks for the feedback and definitively continue commenting on this. We're looking into starting to explore this functionality very soon so all your feedback helps us design the right solution! I understand the need for remaining estimates vs. planned time in Tempo Planner, the advantage for us of Planner is that we can know who it's planned for and use that person's cost rate for forecasted cost solutions. To be continued..

Need to think carefully between planned time on planner vs. Sum of remaining estimates on tasks (including subtasks).

I think the latter makes more sense.

Can "Planned Time" also be based on the estimates on tickets which match the scope filter?

Adding this will let us use this app and we're willing to pay for it :)

Adding time / resource 

Adding extra general overhead ETTC

This would be a MASSIVELY helpful item