How to separate certain Story Points from Calculated Story Points on Epic?

[Nanna Lund]

Let's say we have an Epic with both UX design stories and development stories. UX is working ahead of  development and finishes their design stories prior to development starting. 

We are therefore looking for a way where we can differentiate between the story points done by the UX designers and the story points done by developers as the UX story points should not be included in the development teams story points (velocity and all that jazz). At the same time the UX story points should be visible and calculated somewhere? 



 

[Andrei Eleodor Sirbu]

Hello Nanna, 

One way to do this would be to have a custom field, let's say "UX story points" and leave the native story points field for developers to estimate the issue. 

In your epic, you can add two custom fields "Total Development Story points" and "Total UX story points" and make them read only by associating them to view screens. 

Then you can create an automation which calculates the sum of development story points from the Story Points field and UX story points from the "UX story points" field. 

You want to lookup issues with : issuetype = "Story" AND parent = {{triggerIssue.parent}}

Then you can add an "edit issue" in your automation, select the field you want to sum up the story points and add the following, inside the extra field section : 

{
"fields": {
"Total UX story points": {{#=}}{{lookupIssues.UX story points.sum|0}}{{/}}
}
}

You will still need to cover different possibilities maybe with a few automations.

One whenever an issue is created within the epic and it has story points value in one of the fields.

One whenever an issue is created, estimated then linked to a parent epic. 

One whenever changes are made to any of the story points field. 

I hope this helps, it sure works for me.

Kind regards