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? 

[Troy Spetz]

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?

[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.

[Adam Saunders]

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.