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Can I track Story Points remaining when an Issue rolls into a new Sprint?

David Vogl

Regarding Issues which will roll into the next Sprint:

The Issue originally had a 5 Story Point value; it rolls over, and in the next Sprint there are only 2 points worth of work remaining.

Is there a good way to track the original 5 SP in (Sprint 1) and the Prorated / Remaining 2 SP (Sprint 2) separately?

Comments

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Not without code.

From Jira's point of view, there's no such "roll over" for the 2 and 3. If an issue is rolling into the next sprint, then you failed to deliver it. How far through you are is irrelevant.

Troy Spetz_46oct3

As Nic has said, JIRA is not designed to support carry-over of issues (and preserve their original SPs).

If the original SP estimate needs to be preserved, I suggest defining a custom metadata field where you can keep track of the initial SP estimate. Of course, doing calculations/reporting with a custom SP field is more difficult than using JIRA's built-in SP field.

Other questions to ask about why issues are being carried over to the next sprint:

- Are the initial SP estimates too large (i.e. should have been broken down further)?

- Are the high SP issues being started too late in the sprint?

- Are issues being (peer) reviewed fast enough (i.e. not sitting and waiting for reviews) so that they can go to test without any unnecessary delay?

- Are developers grabbing all the 'good/fun/interesting issues' at the sprint start and then holding onto them (but not progressing them) until they have time to start them?

- Do testers get to provide their own Test SP estimate which provides additional guidance to Developers about how early an issue (which requires a lot of testing) needs to be started within the sprint?

unknown

For the following Sprint, should the team plan their commitment using the original Story point value/estimate on the "rolled-over story"? Using the above example, would they use the original 5 point estimate or the remaining 2 points?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You use the full estimate - how far through the story you are is irrelevant.

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