When will it be done? Lighthouse answers with the odds.
Every guess that slips costs you a little more trust. Lighthouse is a self-hosted flow metrics and Monte Carlo forecasting tool for software delivery teams. It looks at what your team has finished in Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear or ServiceNow and tells you how likely each date is.
What it does
- Forecasts when a set of work items will be done, and how many items will be done by a date, from the team's own throughput. No story points and no estimation meeting.
- Shows cycle time, throughput, work in progress (WIP), work item age, blocked and stale items, each with a red, amber or green signal.
- Combines the forecasts of several teams working on one feature into one forecast, and shows a delivery timeline per feature.
- Checks its own forecasts with Forecast Reality Check, which forecasts weeks that already happened and compares the result with what the team finished.
Where it runs
You install Lighthouse yourself: a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, a Docker container, or Kubernetes with the official Helm chart. It connects to Jira Cloud and Jira Server or Data Center, Azure DevOps, Linear, ServiceNow and CSV. Your work items stay on your systems. The source is public on GitHub under a source-available licence.
What it costs
The Community edition is free for up to 3 teams and 1 portfolio. Self-Service is CHF 2,000 a year with no limits. Enterprise is CHF 10,000 a year and adds priority support. You can try Premium for 30 days without signing up or giving a credit card.
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