Progress Reporting

Walter O_Brien-Gilbert

Hello, 

I have created a number of issues for the project and assigned start and due dates for each task which are sitting in the "In Progress" category. 

How can i assign a % complete against the progress to establish how much has been done or is there another means of establish extent of work complete whilst in progress. 

Thanks 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Obviously, you will need to get people to enter data into Jira that you can use to report on a percentage, but the first question has to be "a percentage of what?"  Time elapsed?  Time spent working on it?  Number of sub-tasks done?  Movement through process steps?

You could just ask people to fill in a simple numeric field for a flat percentage (or, safer, a dropdown for say 0, 25, 50, 75), but that doesn't really tell you much because there's no actual measurement underneath it, your people are mostly just guessing, and worse,  it's a faff to have to remember to update it, so generally people won't bother - you'll end up with 0% for not started, 100% for done and mostly 0% for everything else unless you force them to enter something, at which point you can expect to see a lot of 50%s or random numbers that won't tell you anything more than "we're working on it"