Hi Peter,
The referenced article discusses the advantages of using story points instead of hourly estimates.
Unfortunately it is not relevant in case JIRA user does not use story points in the JIRA Board. Such functionality is officially supported by JIRA. E.g. JIRA supports the following selections in the Board:
Estimation Statistic set to "Original Time Estimate"
Time Tracking set to "Remaining Estimate and Time Spent"
In such case the expectation is that the Burndown chart "Remaining Time Estimate" will include time logged in sub-tasks. I see this is the case in JIRA v7.2.1 so one issue reported in this defect is addressed.
Another expectation is that the time entered in "Estimated" field in sub-task before the sprint starts will be accounted for in Velocity report. The time estimates reported in sub-tasks of a Story before the sprint starts are a part of the estimated effort of the Story before the sprint starts. By definition Velocity should include complete effort estimate for a Story done before sprint starts. Including only part of the estimate is a defect in JIRA v7.2.1 which makes it impossible to use officially supported JIRA functionality (Estimation Statistic set to "Original Time Estimate" and Time Tracking set to "Remaining Estimate and Time Spent").
Please note that the same effort in time cannot be estimated in Story and tracked in sub-tasks because with such usage it is double counted by the tool.
The mechanism of estimating effort in story points in Story and tracking time in sub-tasks works fine but it does not apply for users who want to use time tracking for both estimation and tracking.
Thanks,
Dariusz.
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Hi Peter,
The referenced article discusses the advantages of using story points instead of hourly estimates.
Unfortunately it is not relevant in case JIRA user does not use story points in the JIRA Board. Such functionality is officially supported by JIRA. E.g. JIRA supports the following selections in the Board:
Estimation Statistic set to "Original Time Estimate"
Time Tracking set to "Remaining Estimate and Time Spent"
In such case the expectation is that the Burndown chart "Remaining Time Estimate" will include time logged in sub-tasks. I see this is the case in JIRA v7.2.1 so one issue reported in this defect is addressed.
Another expectation is that the time entered in "Estimated" field in sub-task before the sprint starts will be accounted for in Velocity report. The time estimates reported in sub-tasks of a Story before the sprint starts are a part of the estimated effort of the Story before the sprint starts. By definition Velocity should include complete effort estimate for a Story done before sprint starts. Including only part of the estimate is a defect in JIRA v7.2.1 which makes it impossible to use officially supported JIRA functionality (Estimation Statistic set to "Original Time Estimate" and Time Tracking set to "Remaining Estimate and Time Spent").
Please note that the same effort in time cannot be estimated in Story and tracked in sub-tasks because with such usage it is double counted by the tool.
The mechanism of estimating effort in story points in Story and tracking time in sub-tasks works fine but it does not apply for users who want to use time tracking for both estimation and tracking.
Thanks,
Dariusz.