The Time Spent of Stories or Tasks are not Independent from Sprints

seyed ali vaghefi

Hi there,

We have issue in getting sprint reports. Let me explain it in an example:

on Sprint #1:

• We have a story called Story #1 which has 3 days estimation time.
• We logged a work on it with 1 day time spent. So we see its remaining time is 2 days which is correct.
• Then we completed the story and check the sprint report. We see that the time spent for Story #1 is 1 day. That's correct too.

on Sprint #2:

• We bring the Story #1 from previous sprint to current and correctly we have 2 days remaining time for it.
• We logged a work with 2 days time spent on it.
• Then we completed the Sprint #2.
• Surprisingly in sprint reports we find that the Story #1 time spent extended to 3 days.
• The more weird thing is when we check Sprint #1 report, We find the story has 3 days time spent.

Hope you to understand our problem and happy to read your solutions or guidance.

Thank you.

Troy Spetz_46oct3

We use JIRA 7.12 server version.

 

I believe the problem you are having is that JIRA is not designed to have incomplete work carried across sprints.

 

Work should be planned to be closed within a single sprint. (Agile/Scrum framework)

 

 

This would explain why the same story, being tagged with two subsequent sprints, has a total time of 3 days (for both sprints).

 

If the story had continued into a 3rd sprint, then 3 sprints would reflect the total time spent (effectively tripling the total time spent).

 

Conclusion: Ensure work is planned and completed in one sprint (i.e. no carry-over).