Forecast when work will be done

See a likely finish day, with a range, for a parent card, for the cards a view shows or for a cycle, from your team's recent pace.

In short

The forecast works out a likely finish day for the cards still open, from how many cards your team finished each day over the last 12 weeks. It gives one likely day and a range. It is a guide, not a promise: it moves whenever the work or the pace changes.

Before you start

• Who: anyone who can open the board; only cards you can open count.
• Plan: every plan.
• First: the board needs at least 5 cards finished in the last 12 weeks.

Steps

1. Open a parent card and read the "When will it be done?" line in its Sub-items tab, or open the board's ... menu, choose "Insights" and open the "Forecast" tab. The "Filters" sheet's forecast line opens it too.
2. Read "Likely around" and the range.
3. Open the details to see what the forecast learned from and how many cards it played out.

Result: a likely day such as "Likely around 14 Nov", with the early and late ends of the range.

Where to ask

Read the range

Good to know

• It plays the days out thousands of times over the cards left. It counts cards, not estimates, so cards of very different sizes make it less certain.
• Only cards on boards you can open are counted.
• A card counts as finished when it reaches a done column, the way the pulse counts it.
• The forecast is a reading, not a record: it moves whenever the work or the pace changes.

If something goes wrong

Related

• /help/boards/board-pulse
• /help/boards/parent-and-child-cards
• /help/planner/cycles