Introducing: Calculate delivery progress based on story points

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We’ve spent the last few months talking to customers to understand how they need Jira Product Discovery and Jira Software to work together to get the most value.

We’re excited to announce that delivery progress can now better reflect the size of your delivery tickets. Easily manage how you present the delivery progress field using either issue count or story points.

Delivery progress for an idea can be based on the number of issues in a specific status or the number of issue story points per status. With the launch of story points to estimate delivery progress, you can better communicate plans and progress to stakeholders.

Creators can configure the delivery progress field:

1. Click the Delivery progress field to open the Delivery tab, or select a specific idea and go to the Delivery tab.

2. On the Delivery tab, click the delivery progress bar, and then select Configure delivery progress.

3. From the dropdowns, choose the most suitable options to display the delivery progress:

   1. Default or Simple for the estimation type

   2. Issue count or Story points for the estimation values

Learn more details about the estimation rules and configuration options. 

Please note that the story point estimate field from Team-Managed Projects is not supported at the moment. This feature is only supported in Company-Managed Projects at this time.

Tutorial: Learn how to manage delivery progress

We are excited to continue this journey with you and deliver more value with the Jira Product Discovery and Jira Software integration, there’s plenty more to come.

Cheers,

Rohan, JPD Product Manager

[Alexandre MATHIEU]

Hi, do you have any planning on making it available for Team-Managed Projects ?

[Mike Gargano]

This is a really cool feature, but I'd like to bring up a flaw that I've noticed just based on how my team is using Jira Software.

Before Jira Product Discovery we didn't really have a good way for our Product Managers to manage initiatives at a high level. So we added an additional hierarchy of ticket in Jira Software above Epic for Initiatives. 

We wanted to use these tickets to get a high level overview of the project. So we rolled-up our story points through the ticket hierarchy using automation. Story -> SUM -> Epic -> SUM -> Initiative.

Example: This is 30 points of work.

Initiative 30 SP

• Epic 15 SP
  • Story 5 SP
  • Story 5 SP
  • Story 5 SP
• Epic 15 SP
  • Story 6 SP
  • Story 6 SP
  • Story 3 SP

We're tracking 30 Story Points worth of work over the entire project. However, the Delivery Progress field in JPD counts this as 90 points of work because it doesn't realize we're rolling story points up through the ticket hierarchy. 

I also have a field in Jira Software that tracks the amount of remaining story points by adding up the sum of completed tickets (in a done status category) and subtracting that value from the SUM of story points for all of the tickets using an automation.