How can my team track time on tasks and aggregate that time to an Epic?

Question

My team is using the Kanban Board as we trial Jira for our Task Management tool. We are working to get in the habit of tracking time so that we can get a better idea of how much time we are spending on various different projects and support tasks. We are utilizing Epics to bucket all of our work with Tasks containing the meat of what we are doing. We have noticed that while we can track time spent on issues, that time is not getting aggregated up to its parent Epic. Is there any way to ensure this happens?

Rhys Diab _Rogue Wombat Software_ · Answer

Hi @Amy Kilbury

You can use Jira's built-in automation feature and set it to trigger when time is logged against an issue.

If you want something which doesn't require any set up we put together a plugin called  Agile Docs.

It maintains fields for the summed up time logged on parent Epics:

It also reports on time logged all the way up your entire issue hierarchy up to the project or filter level.

Let me know if this is what you're looking for.

Rhys

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Chiming in on the recommendations of others concerning 3rd party apps, we use

Worklogs - Time Tracking and Reports

It is pretty straight forward to use, and not terribly expensive. We are using it to generate reports for exactly this use case - rolling up time at the Epic level.

Jakub Sławiński · Answer

Hi @Amy Kilbury ,

this is quite common feature in the worklogs related apps from the marketplace. Please try them and use the one that is the most convenient for you:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=worklogs