Need Automation Rule to auto calculate story points in a story based on original estimates in hours?

Shishir Agrawal
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February 15, 2025

I am trying to auto calculate Story Points for an issue type as story as and when the original estimate for the same issue type is updated. 


I have an active automation rule which sums up the original estimates of subtasks as child issues under stories to original estimate of a story. 

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Walter Buggenhout
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February 16, 2025

Hi @Shishir Agrawal and welcome to the Community!

A couple of things to help you further:

  • for questions about automation rules, please share full details of the automation rule you already have in place (add screenshots of your full automation rule and - if you are getting errors - also from the rule's audit log, so we have a good idea where to start from).
  • Explain in full detail what you expect the rule to do and where exactly you are getting stuck.

And also a couple of questions about your specific use case:

  • Why would you try to derive story points from a time based original estimate? Story points are commonly used in teams to replace time based estimates. If certain teams combine both, they usually would do so the other way around - i.e. calculate a time based estimate based on the number of story points.
  • Updating the original estimate of stories based on sub-tasks estimates is not really a recommended practice in Jira. I usually recommend reading up on this support article about work estimations in Jira for a bit more context.
  • Considering time based estimates have no restrictions on what is entered (an estimate can be anything from 1 minute to several weeks), what is the logic you intend to use to convert estimates to story points?

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