How to sum up the story points for leadership reporting and update on dashboard using Story points

[Tanvi Sharma]

We work with native JIRA in which ROVO, Analytics are disabled (except for JIRA Automation). And we need to publish a report for leadership to showcase the work done vs the remaining/planned work (w.r.t. Sprints & Product Backlog).

In JIRA dashboard, none of the widgets allow using "Story Points" as an input parameter (even though the Story Point is configured as numeric field). 

So, rather than integrating JIRA with third party tools (like Power BI etc., which incur cost), please suggest if there is a way to do these calculations within JIRA?

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @Tanvi Sharma 

Welcome to the community !!

If you are looking to get an overview of your sprint progress and are willing to try out a mktplace app, take a look at

Agile Velocity & Sprint Status Gadgets 

The Sprint Status gadget gives a complete summary of your sprint progress with multiple widgets.

The app comes with few other dashboard gadgets to track team member's / team's velocity / productivity based on story points / time spent / issue count in a sprint  and also track sprint status with multiple parameters.

Disclaimer : I am part of the team which developed this app

[Lukas Maczejka _Appfire_]

Hi @Tanvi Sharma and welcome to the community!

As mentioned by others already, there are some (limited) options you can explore using existing gadgets (e.g. Sprint Health), or through complex automation rules. 

If you're open to a solution from the Atlassian Marketplace, the app my team works on — JXL for Jira — is built exactly for this kind of aggregated reporting.

JXL is a spreadsheet-style view for Jira issues. Its sum-ups feature aggregates any numeric field — including Story Points — across hierarchy levels and groupings. For your use case you could, for example:

• Group issues by Sprint and see total/done/remaining story points per sprint at a glance
• Group by Epic to show progress across the backlog
• Combine both to get a two-level breakdown in one sheet

The sheet can also be added as a gadget on any Jira dashboard, so your leadership view stays in Jira.

Disclosure: I work for the team that builds JXL.

Cheers,

Lukas

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Tanvi Sharma,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t quite see how summing up the story points from sub-tasks into the parent story would address your need to build effective reports for leadership.

To create a meaningful leadership dashboard, you typically need dedicated gadgets that track different aspects of project performance, such as sprint and release progress, epic progress, burndown trends, velocity, and other key metrics. These insights generally can’t be achieved simply by aggregating story points.

Jira’s built-in gadgets are somewhat limited in this area. However, Jira native gadgets like Sprint Health or Sprint Burndown are already based on the total story points within a sprint, making them a good starting point for building more useful reporting and dashboards.

However, to build an effective reporting dashboard for your leadership team, you’ll likely need additional gadgets, which you can find by exploring apps (plugins) available on the Atlassian Marketplace.

If you'd like to try such a solution, our Great Gadgets app provides everything needed for this use case.

Your reporting need for "the work done vs the remaining/planned work (w.r.t. Sprints & Product Backlog)" can be measured by using its gadgets Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart  (as for sprint level) and Release Burndown Burnup Chart (at release, backlog level). 

Very helpful for tracking "the work done vs the remaining/planned work" along the sprints is the Team Velocity gadget. 

If you prefer a more custom way to calculate sum of story points, these gadgets are the solution:

Advanced Issue Filter Formula gadget - it allows applying from simple (SUM, COUNT, AVG) to complex math formulas to issue fields (such as story points) from multple filters.

Pivot Table & Pivot Chart - it allows displaying multi-dimensional stats based on sum of a field (such as Story Points) just like pivot tables in Excel.

These are the type of charts you need for an effective leadership dashboard, and I'm afraid they cannot be generated just by calculating the sum of story points via automation... 

See also this article:  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/8-gadgets-for-a-powerful-Scrum-dashboard-in-Jira/ba-p/1683063 

Danut.

[John Funk]

Hi Tanvi,

See if this article helps you: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/How-Can-I-Sum-Up-Multiple-Issues-into-a-Parent-Number-Field/ba-p/2882712

[Nikola Perisic]

Hi @Tanvi Sharma 

You would need an automation rule here:

• Trigger: Field change for Story Points
• Condition: Issue type equals Sub-tasks
• Action: Lookup issues with query parent = {{issue.parent.key}}
• Action: Edit issue - parent, field - story points, value - {{lookupIssues.Story Points.sum}}

[Tanvi Sharma]

Thanks for the inputs.

Can you please explain the last Action - how to add all these details?

As of now, this is what I have created: