Aggregate Progress at the Epic Level

Delaney Van Vranken

I have multiple epics, each with multiple stories and subtasks. We track time spent and original estimates at the subtask level. 

One of my epics is aggregating the progress and estimates from all its subtasks.  When I update time spent or original estimates on a subtask, the aggregate numbers on the epic are updated.  Other epics are not doing this and I don't understand what I've done differently with this one epic, but I want all of my epics to do this.

I know there are add ons that can do this, but since I have an epic behaving the way I want without an add-on I'd like to understand how it's done natively. 

Does anyone understand how the aggregate time and progress fields work and how I can set up my epics to aggregate the time spent and the original estimate from its sub-tasks?

Bharath Kumar Kappala

Hi @Delaney Van Vranken  There are many pieces attached to this answer I will try explaining as briefly as possible 

Everything that I am mentioning is with out of the box Jira configuration

If you have sub-task directly created under the Epics then the sub-tasks time is aggregated under the Epic but if you have sub-task, Tasks and Stories under the Epic and time is estimated to all of them even then only the sub-tasks time is aggregated under the Epic example 

Issue-1(Epic)

Issue-2(Sub-task for Issue-1) Time Estimated -8h

Issue-3(Sub-task for Issue-1) Time Estimated -4h

Issue-4(Task with Epic Link to Issue-1)  Time Estimated -8h

In the above case the Epic will show the Remaining estimate of only 1d 4h(12h) which is the total of sub-tasks, now in your case this might be happening with one Epic where you might be having the aggregated time.

For the other Epics, one of the following might be happening

1. You might be having sub-tasks not directly under the Epic but under the Task which is Epic Linked to the Epic or
2. You might just be having Tasks and Stories under the Epic whose time is not aggregated into the Epic

Hope this helps!! let me know if you have questions.