Hello Everybody,

Thank you for bringing up your concern about the way 'Time Remaining' is calculated when work logs are edited in Jira. We appreciate the time taken to provide us with this feedback.

When you initially enter a value into the "Original Estimate" field, the "Time Remaining" is calculated based on that estimate. If you update the time spent by an hour, the remaining time is adjusted as the "Original Estimate" minus the time spent. However, we acknowledge that if you edit the time spent to a different value and subsequently modify or delete that worklog, the "Time Remaining" won't revert to "Original Estimate" minus time spent; instead, it will consider the previously entered time spent minus the current value. Please read how we calculate time remaining in our product documentation.

Our intention is to use the "Original Estimate" value once before any time is logged. After time is logged, the ‘Time Remaining' value is no longer connected to the "Original Estimate" value. This design decision takes into consideration the interactions between ‘Original Estimate' and logged time values and the 'Time Remaining' aligns with logged time to accurately represent the evolving progress of your work. Although JRACLOUD-77064 suggests a different approach, the current behaviour aligns with our intended design. We understand this isn’t the best approach but to review this decision it's best to have this suggestion captured as a feature request and not a bug. We will introduce a tooltip to help users understand how the time remaining value is calculated and how they can address this issue by updating the time renaming value. 

We believe the best way forward is to change this ticket to a feature request. We encourage you to provide your feedback and suggestions so we can be better informed and gather the information needed to action a change and prioritise it onto our roadmap.

Ahmud
Product Manager-Issue View