

Each board can have a different type of Estimation Statistic and Tracking Statistic. You do this by choosing an Estimation Statistic, then choosing to either use the same units for your Tracking Statistic or to use time-tracking. Story Points, Issue Count) will be used for estimating and tracking issues.

In Jira Software, you can choose which type of units (e.g. How the Estimation Statistic and Tracking Statistic affects your project The team also needs to track the amount of estimation units they have actually fully completed from sprint to sprint, because this number tells us with relative certainty how much we can fit into each future sprint. However, to make this work, the team needs to estimate stories with a consistent level of uncertainty.

This means that they can accurately estimate how long portions of the backlog will take to get done with simple rough estimates. However, from sprint to sprint, as they work through the stories, the team will develop a cadence of completing units of work they had 'roughly estimated', i.e. This is difficult because the backlog may stretch many months into the future, so the team can only provide a very rough estimate in conditions of uncertainty without wasting days breaking the work down. Product teams often need to be able to estimate how long a product will take to deliver. More information about estimation and time tracking Note that this is fundamentally different from using the Estimation Statistic for burndown, in that values do not burn down when an issue is completed - instead, values only burn down when users enter Time Spent or set the Remaining Estimate to a new value. By default, these fields are specified in minutes, but you can use hours, days, or weeks, depending on your JIRA system configuration, see Configuring time tracking ( Jira Admin documentation). Tracking will be based on the Jira ' Remaining Estimate' and 'Time Spent' fields (see Logging work on issues for more information ).
