Is it possible to see a greenline in the Burndown chart for completed stories

Question

I have configured my board to Estimation statistic as 'Story point' and time tracking is set to "None".

I am expecting to see a greenline in my burndown chart indicating the story which has been completed and a red line to indicate the remaining story points.

Is it possible to achieve this? If so how?

Because currently I am not able to see a greenline in my burndown chart.

Ste Wright · Answer

Hi @Sharda Gupta

Remaining Story Points from a report perspective is visualised...

* Burn-up: Distance between completed (green line) and scope (red line)
* Burndown: Distance between the remaining scope (red line) and the bottom of the graph (i.e zero = all completed)

Or are you looking for "remaining story points" to be visualised somewhere other than on a report? If so, could you specify where?

Ste

Sharda Gupta_pdlyd1 · Answer

Hi @Ste Wright

How could I get "Remaining story points" in Jira? Could it be achieved without "log work"?

Ste Wright · Answer

Hi @Julia Jose

Not how it works unfortunately - the burn-down for story points represents both added work (burns upwards) and completed work (burns downwards) - thus if you completed 5 points and added 5 points, it would be flat line.

Time Spent is a slightly different metric, in that it shows time spent not time completed - i.e the green line could exceed the top of the red, if you spend more time working than anticipated.

Ste