Update Description 21 October 2024

In order to make the Story Points field appear on the card of an issue on a Kanban board (in a company-managed Jira Software project) you need to add it to the card's layout (thereby taking up one of the three slots available in the card layout). Once added, the field will appear like so:

In Scrum boards, you do not need to use up one of the three card layout slots and the Story Points field does not take up vertical space, appearing instead as a badge on the card by default:

Kanban boards should make the Story Points field appear on cards in the same way that Scrum boards do.

Regarding the Backlog (not Board) view - there are two related existing tickets for the Kanban backlog view:
JSWCLOUD-16957 – Add Original Estimate field to Kanban Backlogs without consuming more vertical space
JSWCLOUD-18475 – please include the story points in a badge on the kanban backlog

Original Description

As of now, Kanban boards don't display Issue estimates on cards. It would be expected, though, that users can:

• display a selected estimate field on the Board (be it Time Estimates, Story Points or any other available);
• log time and see estimated and remaining time if they're using Time Estimates.

Use case: prioritization of work on the fly; better overview of work in progress.