Automation to convert story points to number of hours in Estimation field

Question

Hi!

I want that whenever team member enters story points, original estimate field should auto populate with relevant number of hours (as defined by us) or vice-versa. Right now we are entering value in both fields manually.

Story point  1 = 2h
                    2 = 4h and so on

Please help me in setting up this automation in Jira.

Thanks
Parveen

Pedro Iván Márquez Peña · Answer

Hello @Parveen Vats

Solved: Automation for converting estimates to story point... Maybe this help you.

Best Regards.

Parveen Vats · Answer

Thank you @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- for your views and suggestions. It's definitely going to help.

Regards
Parveen

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Story points is not going to help you generate accurate reporting - you need your people to put good estimates in, it doesn't matter what format the estimate is in, you just need to train your people to do it right.

Putting it into one field and then translating it to another one is utterly pointless, it's actually likely to reduce the accuracy of your estimates.

If you want to be estimating in hours, doing it with the original estimate is by far the better way to do it.  Story points don't have any of the functionality of the estimate fields.  With the estimate, your people can log work (actual work done), or amend the estimate without losing sight of what they originally put in, and there's better reporting than "story points were/are" on it.