Burndown completely ignoring sub-task hours using "Remaining Estimate".

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March 5, 2025

We are using Jira Cloud and, in the settings, we turned on "Enable Timekeeping" and the "Estimation Type = Story Points". The other symptom is we no longer have any history of
 committed story Points in the Velocity Report, only completed.  Workaround for "Remaining Estimate" burndown: If we load the sum of the sub-tasks up into the story level, and zero out the sub-tasks, the burndown works using logged time against the story. This is not what we want to do.

Some contexts:

  • We have 5 other teams using same settings and their burndowns look great using Remaining Estimate burning down sub-tasks hours. When we switch to view Story Points burndown, that looks good as well. The only difference between the problematic team, is that we put a new workflow underneath it recently. Our Jira support staff doesn't think the workflow has anything to do with the failures in our reporting.

Thoughts????

 

Thanks all,

Steve Josue

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Danut M _StonikByte_
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March 5, 2025

Hi @steve_josue,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As far as I know, Jira's reports and gadget do not take subtasks into account.

If you really need to track by sub-tasks, my advice is to stop struggling with the Jira reports and look for a plugin on the Atlassian Marketplace that can generate better reports.

In case you consider the idea of using a plugin, our Great Gadgets app offers all you need for tracking you sprints / projects by any type of estimates (story points, remaining estimates, etc), with/without sub-tasks. The app offers gadgets like Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart, Release Burndown Burnup Chart (with Forecast), Team Velocity and many more - all you need for tracking the projects in the way you want. 

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Danut.

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