Show estimated hours for stories on board view

[Dan Bendelic]

I have a kanban board with stories, each of which has sub-tasks. The sub-tasks have estimated hours. When I go to the kanban board view I can see the estimated hours for each sub-task under a story, but not for the story itself.

This is despite having configured the card layout to show the original estimate. Is there a way for the story cards to show the combined total estimated hours of their sub-tasks?

[Christoph Schötz]

Dan - have you read https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-Core-questions/Why-doesn-t-story-have-an-estimated-time-that-s-the-sum-of-its/qaq-p/401739 ? Suggests that you have to use scripting to achieve what you want...

[Dan Bendelic]

So the answer is no.

And scripting would be a very complicated workaround for what should be a no-brainer feature.

Atlassian get on this!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid Atlassian's thought on this is simple - "don't estimate subtasks"

[Raphael TANT]

This is just incredible that after more than 10 years of asking this is still not possible easily, atlassian just do not care at all  ...

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Actually they do.  But they're still waiting for a useful definition of how to usefully estimate subtasks in a way that works for everyone, fits with all the Agile methodologies and doesn't break all the reporting.