Hi everyone;
we're excessively using Jira for project planning in our internal processes (development, consulting), which includes time planning. Usually this works like that:
- There's a Jira Project for each customer and a Jira Epic inside that for each project we do with the customer.
- The project usually has a negotiated time budget which currently is placed in the epic as estimate (like "15 days").
- Actual work happens in tasks that belong to that epic. The project managers responsibility is to create these tasks and add time slots to them, making sure the project stays in budget.
That flow, currently, works well except for the estimates: At the moment, the epic estimate does in no way relate to the estimate in the tasks. It's difficult to, while adding tasks, see how much time is actually planned in individual tasks (compared to the epic as a whole). Is there a solution to improve this? Two ideas we had:
- Can we set up Jira in a way to make task estimates sum up in the epic estimate rather than having the epic estimate pre-set?
- Ideally: Can we add both an "planned" (pre-set) and a "real" (calculated from subtasks) estimate to epics to have a faster overview of how current planning state is?
In some ways, the workflow for tasks/subtasks in this case is pretty close to what we need, only that it doesn't work for epic/task. Any ideas or hints on that...?
Thanks in advance and all the best,
Kristian
