Total Story Points Over Time

Cengiz Oner

I would like to chart total story points (y-axis) vs time (x-axis) in order to be able to track scope changes over time.  Preferably, the chart would be an area chart or bar chart and the x-axis would be grouped by calendar week.  Is there any way that this can be accomplished using Cloud Jira?

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Cengiz Oner -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Short answer: there is nothing in out-of-the-box Jira Cloud that can display that report

Longer answer:

The closest built-in thing to this is Atlassian's interpretation of a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD).  However that correctly shows issue counts, not total of other measures (e.g. story points)

How often do you need such a report, where do you want it displayed, and costs to acquire?

• Often / inside of Jira / Monthly costs:
  • investigate the marketplace to purchase reporting addons, such as for dashboard gadgets
• Infrequently / outside of Jira / No costs other than to build it:
  • download your issues to a spreadsheet and build a simple area chart, based upon create date and cumulative story points
• Often / outside of Jira / No costs other than to build it: 
  • Use the Atlassian provided Google Sheets or Excel Addins, and build/save a report which can consume the filter to report, when needed

Kind regards,
Bill