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How does the sprint health gadget calculate scope change %?

Colleen Bordieri

I'm trying to determine how scope change % is calculated in the Sprint Health Gadget in Jira. On one of sprints, my team started with 120 points and added two 5 point & and one 3 point stories and it says the scope change is 125%...this has to be incorrect.

I confirmed in my board configuration I'm using Story Points and not issue count for the estimation method.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Colleen Bordieri -- Welcome to the Atlassian community!

Have you reviewed this documentation for the gadget? It essentially uses the estimation method for your board and calculates using the add/removed items since the sprint started.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/agile064/jira-agile-user-s-guide/using-the-jira-agile-gadgets/using-the-sprint-health-gadget

Best regards,

Bill

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Colleen Bordieri -- Welcome to the Atlassian community!

Have you reviewed this documentation for the gadget? It essentially uses the estimation method for your board and calculates using the add/removed items since the sprint started.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/agile064/jira-agile-user-s-guide/using-the-jira-agile-gadgets/using-the-sprint-health-gadget

Best regards,

Bill

rateodoros_cojjhx

Bill, I read the documentation, the explanation is pretty simple "if you started a sprint with 50 story points and add an issue with 5 story points, the Sprint Health gadget would show a 10% scope change".

But, really, that doesn't match. It doesn't look that simple, I actually replied the same situation described in documentation.

Estimation in board is in Story Points.

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Colleen Bordieri

Thanks @Bill Sheboy , I did take a look at the documentation and to @rateodoros's point, it's not behaving as the documentation suggests. Trying to figure out if I'm missing something or if there is a bug in how this is calculated. Thank you both for the replies!

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Colleen Bordieri

I just tried your scenario with a classic project in Cloud version, and it worked correctly for me: start with 120 pts in sprint, add 2x5 pts and 1x3pts = rounded up to 11% scope change. So, perhaps there is a different server version issue.

I found two open defects for server that seemed related you this symptom...both of which are about 4 years old.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-15130

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-14757

I suggest submitting a support ticket and then please post back here what Atlassian finds. Thank you!

https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

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