Show total estimates of user stories in epics?

[Bas Prins]

Hi,

We are looking for any way to show accumulated estimates so that we can have a rough idea how much work an epic / a user story is.

We don't care which way of working we need to follow, we just want to have any parent -> child relation which allows Jira to accumulate estimates. So either:

- an epic which shows the accumulated estimates of its child user stories

- or a user story which shows all accumulated estimates of its child sub tasks

I tried to fiddle around with automation, but I also wasn't able to get it working there.

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Danut M _StonikByte_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bas Prins,

Where do you want to see that info? On the epic's View screen, as a report, in a dashboard gadget?

Jira displays the accumulated estimates for the epics in Backlog screen of the agile board - all you have to do it to turn on the epics panel.  

Hope this helps. 

Danut

[Bas Prins]

Hmm, that's a bit surprising. I must be missing something then.

Backlog screen:

This epic contains user stories with estimates:

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

It's like this because you are on a team-managed project. In my example I used a company-managed project...

Sorry, I don't know how to make your board look like the ones from company-managed projects :( 

Danut.

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

An alternative would be to look for an app from Atlassian Marketplace. For example, our Great Gadgets app includes a Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget that allows you to display accumulated estimates for each epic. 

Or accumulated estimates split by for each status or status category:

Hope this helps. 

Danut.

[shib saha]

Hey @Bas Prins , Did you check these articles for summing up the story points or estimate to its parents

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/How-to-sum-up-logged-hours-using-automation-in-Jira-Cloud/ba-p/1409115

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library/sum-up-story-points

Please let us know how it goes. Thanks

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Bas Prins

just to add to @shib saha's great answer:

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, there's a number of apps available that can help with this. These apps usually have their own ways of doing these sum-ups/accumulations, and therefore don't impact your Automation budget.

I myself happen to work on an app in which your use case might be easy to solve. I'll add more information below.

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

... and just to expand on my last point: If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you might like the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

With these, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views and reports; you can also view and group by any other issue fields, configure different sum-up styles, etc. etc.

Any questions just let me know!

[Bas Prins]

Hmm, this app would be free for less than 10 users. We're smaller than 10. Would that bite us in the &!@ or do you dare to say that we'd be allowed to use this app for free?

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Bas Prins

Marketplace apps are priced based on the license size of your Jira site. So if your Jira site is licensed for ten or less users, it's 100% free.

Best,

Hannes