Jira Story Points Question

[Antonio Daniel]

Is there an option, that if a story has sub tasks that the story point field at story level is greyed out so that it only counts the points from the sub tasks?

Project Type: Company Managed

[John Price]

Hi @Antonio Daniel -

By default, Subtasks don't have Story Points. In a default Scrum project, you'd have:

Epic (has SP)
---- Story (has SP)

---------Subtask (does not have SP)

Of course, your Jira project might be configured some other way, and maybe the team is doing some non-standard estimation practice.  

Common pattern: Epics are estimated in some other unit like T-Shirt size, way before they come up for work. Then you split the Epic into Story items with help from the team, and estimate each story in Story Points. At that point, you might want the Epic to show the sum of the stories' SPs so you can plan an iteration/sprint. Then during sprint planning, the team creates a bunch of sub-tasks needed to achieve the stories. Those are usually estimated in hours/days or not at all.

If you give more info about the current state and your agile process and goals, I might be able to help more.

[Trudy P Claspill]

Hello @Antonio Daniel 

Adding to what John said, if you are using Story points as your estimation, the burn down charts will not burn down based on completion of subtasks. They will burn down only based on completion of the parent issues. If those don't have estimation values (i.e. Story points) then your burndown charts will be flat at 0.