When should ticket move to "Done" in the workflow?

Question

Hello there,

I work in software development company and I have a question regarding the workflow of the tickets .. is it right to move ticket to done after testing in QA env or should be moved to done after release on production?

Also, how to use burndown chart in Jira to track the progress, is the story burndown depends on moving it to "done"?

Thanks

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I'm afraid it's a bit more complex than that.

Plain Jira uses "Resolution = <empty>" to indicate that an issue is open and needs more attention, "Resolution has any value at all" to indicate that an issue is closed and no-one needs to look at it again (for working on, there's plenty of reason to run reports off resolved issues)

But, Scrum and Kanban boards do not look at resolution.

Kanban boards can look at anything for their "done" (the default is "has a version that has been released"), but there's no burn-down on Kanban boards, so it's not too important.

Scrum boards look only at the last column on the board the sprint belongs to.  An issue is "done" if it is in the last column, and not done if it is any other column.  Resolution is irrelevant to burn-down.

Dave Bosman _Inetum_ · Answer

Hi Omar,

I could tell you but that would be me, saying in my own words, what is explained on this page ;)

https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/best-practices-on-using-the-resolution-field-968660796.html

The documentation is more extensive than what i would write here, so.... I hope this will help you any further.

What i do want to say is, make sure that you set a resolution on each issue that is closed. If you reopen it, make sure that you remove the resolution. This can be done with a transition screen where you let the users choose, or you can do it with a post function. Both need to be configured in the workflow.

I hope that this information answers all your questions.

Regards

Dave

Omar Jouda · Answer

Thanks Dave

Can you please tell me more about resolution?