Time Tracking not work... (Epic, Story, SubTask)

Question

I need to do something simple, which seems simple, but I don't understand why it doesn't work...

In my EPIC I have set the "Original Estimate" Ex 90h,

I created a STORY named Story1 with "Original Estimate" Ex 40h and another Story2 with Ex 50h.

Now in Story1 I created a SubTask where I set the "Time Tracking" to 10h.

But I don't see in Story1 that it is discounted from the "Original Estimate" ("Include subtasks" is selected) and I don't see that in the Epica it has updated the "Time Tracking" where "Include Subtasks" is selected as well.

I think this is basic, I don't see where to activate it or how to make it simple, the examples are confusing and creating automations.

I´m using Jira Cloud Standard

Thank you very much for your help.
Greetings!

Dan -minware- · Answer

Disclaimer: marketplace partner

Hey @Andrés Denis -

If you are open to a 3rd party service we handle this "out of the box" in minware:

Andrés Denis_1is99q · Answer

Thank you very much for your answer, I will see how to implement it as you tell me. thank you!

Walter Buggenhout · Answer

Hi @Andrés Denis and welcome to the Community!

Jira does not work the way you are trying to implement it. Your estimations (in Orgininal Estimate) should be at the Story level. These are the items your team delivers (as a whole), and while sub-tasks can be added to split the work into smaller pieces of work to be worked on - optionally in parallel by different people - you should not add estimates there.

The option to include sub-tasks adds the time spent from sub-tasks to the story level issues as a sum. It does not include the original estimates - again as you should only define that at story level.

Hope this helps!