Calculating Effort Required to Resolve an Issue 
Use
You can record the planned effort for resolving an issue, and compare this with the actual effort required.
Prerequisites
You have opened the Issue Editor. You have also
entered an issue and described it.
Procedure
Select the Effort tab.
Select your ID in the User ID list box. You can only transfer your own ID to this list box.
Choose Add Effort on the lower right of the screen.
From the Effort category list box, select the type of resources required to resolve the issue. Possible values are, for example, ABAP development, Internal consulting, External consulting, or Training.
In the Planned field, enter the time you think it will take to resolve the entire issue, for a particular effort category.
- You can record the estimated effort for each effort category. In this way, you can estimate how much time will be required for resolving a certain area of an issue, for example, ABAP development and training. The sum of the individual amounts you enter appear on the bottom of the screen (Total).
- Effort is calculated in hours.
- To finish calculating the estimated effort for each effort category, select Save. You can correct your estimates at a later stage. Any corrections you make on the Effort tab are recorded and included in reports (see
Generating Reports on Issues.
- You can enter any remarks you would like to make on your estimates in the Comment field.
- Save your entries. Close the Issue editor.
For more information, see
Updating the Actual Effort Required.