Configure the delivery progress field

With Jira Product Discovery, you can visually track the progress of the Jira work items associated with an idea in the delivery progress field. Additionally, you can control how the field calculates delivery progress based on the linked Jira work to an idea.

To display the delivery progress, you should adjust the estimation type (Default or Simple) and estimation values (Work item count or Story points) to impact the final outcome. The calculation rules differ depending on the configuration.

• Default calculates delivery progress differently depending on the estimation values. For Work item count, it takes into account the status of child work items of the linked work, and for Story points, it includes the number of story points of all linked Jira work and its child work items. However, there are a few rules you need to take into account:

  • Subtasks don’t count as child iwork items and are ignored.

  • Child work items are only one level below the linked work item. Child work items of lower levels are not taken into account.

  • Child work items are 1 level below the linked work item, children of children (2 levels below) are not taken into account.

  • If the linked work item has no children, it takes the status of the linked work item itself. For example, if you have an In progress epic without child work items, then the epic’s status is taken into account.

  • If the linked work item is Done, it considers all child work items Done as well.

  • If the linked work item with child issues doesn’t have a Done status, it takes into account the child work items status.

• Simple aggregates the statuses or story points of all linked work items without considering child issues.

• Issue count tracks the delivery progress based on the number of work items in a certain status.

• Story points calculate the delivery progress based on the number of work item story points per certain status.

Before you begin

• You must be a creator to configure the delivery progress field.

To 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. Click the delivery progress bar, and 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

Once you’ve set up the options, they will be applied to the entire Jira Product Discovery project.

The delivery progress calculation is done automatically. If you want to unlink the work item from the idea and exclude it from the calculation, hover over the linked work item and click the cross icon.