Is there a way to calculate hours into story points automatically in Jira?

Question

My team wants to estimate work simply in hours in an effort to measure how much dev time in total was spent on a project once completed and see if the investment was worth it. We currently use a story pointing system that's vague and confusing so it would be easier for us to just estimate in hours and minutes for smaller tasks. Is there a way in Jira to automatically set the story point value in the Story Points field if you enter hours somewhere. Not sure if that would be the original estimate or time tracking field. Not sure if these fields would help us.

Please let me know if there's a solution in Jira for this and if others have faced similar challenges.

George Mihailoff · Answer

@vildana_ermaya please check out our app, which does automatic actual time spent calculation and has flexible reporting. This is a very good business question beyond development where story points have no sense.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I'd recommend the use of the original estimate field if you want hours - it's designed to handle lengths of time, unlike a plain number field.

You could use a number field for "hours" too, but you would need to think in primitive decimals if you wanted to use parts of hours (1.25 = 1 hour 15 minutes, 1.33333333 hours = 1 hour 20 minutes and so-on)

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi,

I was suggesting to enter your hours in the Story Point field.  Think of it this way: your team's story point values are hours.  The reporting (burn chart, velocity, etc.) will take care of themselves.

Also note: the team is estimating in hours.  This is not a time-tracking (actuals).  If you need that, please investigate the time tracking features and add-ons.

Thanks,

Bill