Do changes in story points affect previous sprint reports?

michael_vogel_sg4oxd

After a sprint is completed stories are carried over where work has already been done. A 13 might have 5 story points work done already and 8 points left. If an additional 5 points of work are done and the story is carried over again, then the final sprint for that story will have 3 story points left.

So:

• sprint 1: 13 points estimate
• sprint 2: 5 points estimate
• sprint 3: 2 points

Are the reports of previous sprints modified every time the story points are amended?

If so, that should be a bug IMO as it messes with sprint velocity and forces users to keep track of the actual story points in some other manner, which introduces an easy way to make mistakes.

Rebekka Heilmann (viadee)

Hi @michael_vogel 

Not - Sprint Reports are done and not updated once a sprint is closed.

Are you using time tracking on your issues? You could then see how much of it is still open at the end of a sprint. Then you would have the 5 SP work done reflected in your sprint report. However that only works properly when working with actual time (d/h/m).

You could also split the issue into two - giving the original one 5 and the other one 8 and moving the new one into Backlog. You then move the original issue to the Done Column. In you Sprint Report you will see that Estimations changed on the original one. Your velocity would be based on the 5 SP actually done within your Sprint.