JIRA Plan - Doesn't show Story Point Field

[Ankit Mahajan]

If JIRA Plans source of data is JIRA Projects that has Scrum or Kanban Board won't show option to use Story Point field. 

If JIRA Plan source of data is Scrum Boards, Story Point field show up

[Reece Markowsky · Accepted solution]

you can. fields will allow you to select story points if (under your plan settings) you choose estimates in story points vs days,. to do this goto Plan Settings

Scheduling

Estimation

Estimate issues in: points

then story points is available under Fields.

[Prateek Pradeep]

THIS IS A CORRECT ANSWER.

[Clark Everson]

Hi @Ankit Mahajan 

Story points only works with Scrum boards for Jira Projects. I am trying to find the documentation to share but can't seem to right now but I have looked into this in the past. Kanban by definition isn't supposed to work with velocity and in Agile story points are specifically for velocity tracking.

So while some teams do work that way and it works at lower levels of Jira Software, both Advanced Roadmaps and Jira Align from all the research I have done is around Jira being used properly as an agile tool. Properly meaning all teams working the same way, and when teams use scrum they use story points etc.

There are 3rd party tools like Structure for Jira that are better designed to work the way teams prefer rather than the way Atlassian has it designed.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/34717/structure-flexible-jira-project-management?tab=overview

Best,
Clark

[Joe Collins]

I think this is a silly answer.  Kanban teams can still estimate the size of work using relative estimation with the goal of breaking the work down into similarly sized work items.  Forcing a Kanban team to use hours or days means the tool is dictating behaviors rather than facilitating the way a team wants to work.

[Randy O_Neal]

@Joe Collins I have to agree; in fact, I'd go so far as to say it's an incorrect answer.  My teams switched from Scrum (after 8+ years) to Kanban last year, and we've on multiple occasions fallen back to estimating via story points when we've had large epics come our way so that we could figure out how best to break down the work and how to estimate when we should be able to complete the epics.

Jira works just fine with story points on cards within a Kanban board; I have two teams with 6-8 months worth of experience to back up this assertion.