How can I check the amount of user stories generated/started by a Team Member?

[rosanna.kelly]

I have performance issues with one of my team members. I would like to see if there is a record and or data I can check where this team member has initiated and completed writing the user stories. Please note we don't record time once a user story is generated. Would it be possible to do that without checking the history of each user story?

Filtering the user story by team member/project doesn't give me the exact picture of how much work this team member has done in each story, as generally team assigns stories to the person. 

Overall, I am seeking evidence of performance and therefore how many user stories this team member has started and completed. 

[Ignacio Pulgar · Accepted solution]

There's an easy way to get exactly what you need:

1. Add all External Partner users to a group, ie named: external.
2. Ensure External Partners do not belong to any other groups or project roles that might grant them with any permissions in tge project.
3. Create a group picker custom field, ie named: Invited Group(s).
4. Add Invited Groups field to the screens where you would like it to be available.
5. Add Invited Group(s) field to the Browse Projects permission in the permission scheme. (Group custom field value)
6. [Bulk] edit the issues you would like to share with your External Partners by setting the 'external' group as the value of Invited Groups field.

After completing those steps, you'll be able to grant access to the issues you want without having to update the old ones.

Please, note that, on granting Browse Projects permission to the group value of a custom field, the *project name* of a so configured project would be listed to all users in your Jira instance. This does *not* grant access to any issues in the project, so it's completely safe to set the project that way.

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Nice way, @Ignacio Pulgar!

[Ignacio Pulgar]

Thanks, Matt!

[Ignacio Pulgar]

Oh, and of course you may add the Invited Group(s) field to any other desired permissions in a similar way.

[Andrei Bacanu]

This is gold, to be honest :)

Thanks Ignacio!

[Ignacio Pulgar]

You are welcome! 😃

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Hi @Alexander Allen,

I agree that updating issues via the UI would result in also updating the "last updated" field and would therefore break your reporting based on that field.

The one solution I could think of is modifying the data directly in the database, but if I look at the tags you provided, you're on Jira Cloud, correct?

An alternative approach to this problem would be synchronizing the issues you like to share to one (or multiple) separate project(s). You could then simply grant your external partner access to that project and don't worry about setting the issue security levels. If you're interested in that path, check out the issue sync solutions in the marketplace.

I'm part of the team behind Backbone Issue Sync. If you have any questions, please ask them either here or via support@k15t.com.

Cheers,
Matthias.

[Andrei Bacanu]

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