Can the Story points added to the subtasks automatically sum up to parent issue?

Question

The original estimate and the time estimate of the subtasks are summed up automatically and we are able to see them on the parent issue.

Whereas subtasks story points added to the subtasks are not summed up to the parent issue story points field.

Can someone guide me on how we can configure that or is there any plugin that is available on the Marketplace for Free?

Fabian Lim · Answer

Hi @Vinod Mendem:

You can use jira automation to sum up the story points. You can take a look at this video tutorial here: https://youtu.be/60sWD66l19k

The actual atlassian post can be found here: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library/sum-up-story-points

Mikaela Bertucci · Answer

Have you seen this?

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-can-you-automatically-sum-the-story-points-of-all-subtasks/qaq-p/863364

It shows you how to use automation to sum the story points of subtasks to the parent.

I use it all the time.

Earl McCutcheon · Answer

Hi Vinod,

This question comes up a lot but it is expected behavior for the roll up to not occur between a sub-task and Parent Story.

In Agile methodologies it is expected that you would not be applying story point estimates at the Sub-Tasks hierarchy but rather with Story Points you estimate at the Story hierarchy level, and Jira Software enforces this approach.

I have recently answered another post on this topic that goes into a bit more detail and some additional links to alternate discussions on the topic that I would recommend checking out, viewable here:

* https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Summarizing-story-points-from-sub-tasks-in-parent-task/qaq-p/1031210

Regards,
Earl