Remaining Estimates From Sub-Tasks

Question

Hi There,

I hope you are well !

I am trying to set automation rule that will enable me to get hours logged into sub-tasks to my main story, so that remaining hours are decreasing.

I created below rule, but when this runs my hours spent are doubling.

Is there anything I can do to ensure that when this rules runs worklog from sub-task is getting deleted ?

Gor Greyan · Answer

Hi @Andrzej Paszek

Thanks for the clarification.

What if we update the parent’s “Remaining Estimate” only, not the Time Spent?

We can change the automation.

Set Remaining Estimate --> (Parent Remaining Estimate) - (Time Logged on sub-task).

Andrzej Paszek · Answer

Hi Both,

Thanks for your answers, however this isn't what I had in mind.

My issue started with a need to create a burndown chart (in hours), however I noticed that sub-tasks are not reducing remaining estimated hours on main story if someone would log their working time against them.

This is now resolved by having the automation from Gor's example above in place.

My 2nd issue is that, we also have different reports that are using hours spent measure. Which in case, having above automation in place would inflate the numbers on the reports if anyone would put their time against the sub-task.

So it sort of solves the issue, but opens up another. Hence me trying to find out if there is a way to not have time logged against the sub-tasks so it doesn't multiply the hours.

I am also aware of option to educate / inform the team to not log against sub-tasks and only do it for main story - which would solve the problem all together, but things happen and sometimes they do not. So I was looking for the way to take the issue away all together.

I am bit surprised that this is intended Jira behaviour as seen many similar topics while researching for answers yesterday.

Hopefully, this makes more sense now.

Gor Greyan · Answer

Dear @Andrzej Paszek

Sorry, I wrongly understood your question :)

In this case, I think you can do that without automation.

Just no need to estimate the parent ticket, check the "Include subtaks" checkbox, which will calculate the sum of the sub-tasks' original estimate and time spent.
If you are also estimating the parent, you just need to divide the number by 2 :D

In our company, we are just estimating the sub-tasks and seeing the progress on the parent ticket.

Also, the same as @Bert Dombrecht suggests.