How to set planned/actual development efforts?

You can define, track, and monitor the team's development efforts per Requirement / Features, User Story, Task, or any custom-defined activity. 

In this article - 

• Setting the planned development efforts
• To report actual development efforts

To set the planned development efforts - 

1. Open up a Requirement / Feature / Analysis / User Story / Task 
   • For Requirements / Features (Level 1), select the Development tab.
     In the General section, you can set the Planned Dev Efforts
     
      
   • For User Stories / Tasks (Level 2 & 3), you can set the Planned Dev Efforts in the Work Plan section in the General tab
     
     To set Planned Efforts in bulk, use the mass editing option
     
      

To report actual development efforts

• Click on the Actions button and select Report Effort
  
  
  Or
   
• Click on the number of Actual Development Efforts
  

Good to Know!

• You can define to set Planned and/or remaining development efforts automatically by calculating all sub-activities planned and reported efforts.
• Setting level 1 & 2 activities to Ready to Test / Testing / Completed status will reset the remaining efforts value to 0