Total Story Points Over Time

[Cengiz Oner]

I would like to chart total story points (y-axis) vs time (x-axis) in order to be able to track scope changes over time.  Preferably, the chart would be an area chart or bar chart and the x-axis would be grouped by calendar week.  Is there any way that this can be accomplished using Cloud Jira?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Cengiz Oner -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Short answer: there is nothing in out-of-the-box Jira Cloud that can display that report

Longer answer:

The closest built-in thing to this is Atlassian's interpretation of a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD).  However that correctly shows issue counts, not total of other measures (e.g. story points)

How often do you need such a report, where do you want it displayed, and costs to acquire?

• Often / inside of Jira / Monthly costs:
  • investigate the marketplace to purchase reporting addons, such as for dashboard gadgets
• Infrequently / outside of Jira / No costs other than to build it:
  • download your issues to a spreadsheet and build a simple area chart, based upon create date and cumulative story points
• Often / outside of Jira / No costs other than to build it: 
  • Use the Atlassian provided Google Sheets or Excel Addins, and build/save a report which can consume the filter to report, when needed

Kind regards,
Bill

[Mehmet A _Bloompeak_]

Hi @Cengiz Oner

An alternative way is to use Reports - Charts and Graphs for Jira app developed by our team.

• You can create custom, flexible and colorful bar charts and table views for any data you want/need.
• You can set X axis to be any parameter like Created(month), Assignee, Sprint, Fix Versions etc.
• You can set Y axis to be any parameter like number of issues, sum of remaining estimates, average of story points etc.
• You can group your data on any field(Sprint, Status, Assignee, Component, Project etc.) you want.
• You can choose various date ranges like All Time, Last Year, Last 3 Months, Last 6 Months etc.
• You can order the results by drag and drop.

Here is a sample report that shows sum of story points by creation week.

Hope it helps.