JIRA Finished Stories

Question

In a JIRA project, is there a master list of stories completed in the project?

I'm especially interested in the story ID, title, epic, story points, and sprint it was completed in.

As a project manager, having such a list is invaluable for creating customized views into work history throughout the project. Surely such a list is available, and I just haven't found it yet, right?

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello Arnold,

Thank you very much for your feedback and sorry to hear that you've been struggling to configure the view I suggested.

Actually, the screenshot I sent you is from the gadget itself and the fields that are in-built on this, so those fields are not related to the column fields that you found under the List View.

Anyway, there are some points you mentioned that does not match with the scenario I have on my JIRA instance. The fields Summary and Sprints should be properly displayed for you in your JQL view too unless you don't have any value for those fields.

Also, I understand that maybe JIRA can be confusing due to the high number of functionalities it has and, sometimes, it is also configurable in an intuitive way for some users. However, I can absolutely confirm to you that this view is not that hard to implement once you know the way to do this.

That being said, I'd like to ask you a few questions to better understand your Scenario and help you:

- Are you using JIRA Cloud or JIRA Server? If it is JIRA Server, what's the version?

- Can you please display what results do you get when you type Sprint or Summary under the Columns menu?

- Once you configure the JQL filter to return a list of your finished Stories, type GG on your Keyboard. It will open a search box where you will type System Dashboard and navigate to it.

Once you are on your dashboard, click to add gadget and select the Filter Results that is under the All Gadgets session.

Select the filter you configured and try to select the fields you want on the Gadget, as displayed in the Screenshot below:

Additionally, if you think that a call or a screen share with a support Engineer from Atlassian would make things easier for you, you can contact our internal support in the link below:

- https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

I'll be looking forward to your reply to better understand your Scenario and help you, Arnold.

Arnold Hendrick · Answer

First, I tried to reply by email, since your answer appeared in my google email - BIG mistake... this board does not integrate with gmail at all. Sorry about the delayed response.  Here is my much-delayed reply:

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My search with filters is not producing anything like what you illustrate above. I can get a list of finished stories, but to see anything beyond the story ID and title, I have to look at them story by story. You managed to display the sprint, story points, and epic, I could find the controls to display that as part of the search result. Eventually I found the control that changed its name to "Columns" that seemed to emulate your display. Unfortunately, the search filter categories available were designed for bug sorting, not story display. Scrum stories are NOT bugs !!!

I could not find any search filter column categories for story points or sprints, probably because they have some weird category name only a many-year Atlassian veteran familiar with its bug-system roots might know. None of the categories matched your column heads of "summary" (story ID and name), story points, or sprint. The epic "name" displayed nothing, but the epic "link" displayed the color-coded epic name. What a mess! (example screen shot below shows the point where I gave up).

Because I couldn't get the search filters to provide the desired info, I didn't bother struggling with the "add gadget > filter results" mechanism, much less trying to configure the gadget to work reliable in subsequent sessions. I'm sure that would have been another frustrating voyage into arcane and inappropriate terminology.

Frankly, having to struggle of search filters is a very poor way of getting this information. Imagine if you had to use a search with filters to display the backlog, or display the stories in the current sprint? Learning from what you've finished may not seem important to a scrum worker, but I assure you, in our multi-year, multi-person software development venture, that information is already needed at the half-year point, as we look back and start analyzing out accomplishments and issues over multiple sprints. The past is never a perfect predictor of the future. Nevertheless, understanding the past does help one improve and do better in the future.

I had suspected that Atlassian's JIRA had no easy, robust system for displaying finished stories. This experience confirms that opinion. While I know of better tools, their cost is outrageous. Perhaps I should be happy with what Atlassian provides for a low cost, but I want Atlassian to know that once our company can afford it, I'll almost certainly abandon JIRA for something more robust, such as the software once known as Rally or CA, but now has various non-memorable names due to corporate acquisitions and reorganizations.

best regards

Arnold Hendrick

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello Arnold,

Thank you for raising this question.

You can create a list as you need with the Filter Results Gadget on your dashboard. Here are the steps:

- Click on Issues and Filters > Search Issues > Configure the filter with the issues you want on the list and save it

- Navigate to your Dashboard > Click to Add Gadget > Filter Results

- Configure the Gadget to display the fields you want:

Please, let me know if this is what you are looking for.