Velocity Chart

Nilay Sinha

Hello,

In my sprints, I follow the following procedure:

1. during sprint planning, i assign original estimates to a US and update the same value for the field SP.

2. As the sprint progresses, my team keep reducing the SP based on how much work is left to do in the sprint. So basically the field SP is the To-Do estimate. So for a completed story, the SP is set to '0'. This gives me a burn down chart with SP on Y-Axis and dates on X-axis.

The problem comes when i publish the velocity chart at the end of the sprint. since all the completed stories have '0' SP value, in other words, to-do effort is '0', the Velocity chart shows 0 as SP completed.

 

is there a way to customize this behaviour. Or if you could give me an alternate Way of working, it would be very helpful.

 

Thanks

Scott Theus

Hi @Nilay Sinha ,

You are correct, the velocity chart will show "0" at the end of the sprint because there are no story points left in the completed sprint; they've all been removed. I Jira this means that all of the work done in the sprint amounts to 0 points.

Instead of setting the story points to 0 when the story is completed, the team should be moving the story to "Done" status and leaving the points alone. This will allow you to use the sprint burndown report over the course of the sprint to gauge the work remaining and the velocity report at the end of the sprint to show the team's current amount of work that can be completed in a sprint. 

To keep your current burndown process with SP on Y-Axis and dates on X-axis I suggest using a custom field named "Remaining Story Points" and adjusting your report to pull that value. 

Hope this helps, 

 

-Scott