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Custom jira fields for estimates

Avinash Singh

We have teams that want to have various custom fields to estimate work in different phases in the SDLC.

Example they want fields for Development effort, Testing effort, Deployment Automation effort etc.

I'm not sure how they plan to roll these efforts up into the issue estimation or if they sum the various fields manually to get the issue estimate.

From a agile scrum methodology point of view, I dont agree with this approach. Estimates should include all aspects of the work involved to complete an issue.

Alternatively they should break up their tasks into separate components that they can estimate individually.

What are you guys thoughts ?

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Mesut Yilmazyildirim

In my company I am handling same requests but I always suggest them to split issues into small tasks.

Now squads create different tasks for development, analysis or tests. Each task has own estimation. And team can calculate total velocity of the Squad.

Avinash Singh

Do u mean sub-tasks ?

Also do you have automation in place to create these tasks for every issue ?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Don't estimate on sub-tasks if you're doing Scrum, it won't work.

Avinash Singh

Thanks. Would you support the idea of having custom fields for the various efforts? What will be your approach ?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Yep, create numeric custom fields for the various estimates, then I'd use Scriptrunner to add them up for display, search and reporting.

Avinash Singh

Thanks. I assume this will be your preference over have an individual task for each part of the work, where you would estimate the work using the native jira functionality ?

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