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 item to an idea.

Before configuring delivery progress, make sure your ideas are linked to Jira work items.

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

Estimation type

• 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:

  • Child work items are only one level below the linked work item. Child work items of lower levels 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.

• Multilevel works similarly to Default mode, but instead of only looking at direct children of the linked work item, it includes all levels of the hierarchy (child items and other descendants).

  • The top-level linked work item itself is excluded from the progress calculation, only its child work items (at all levels) are counted.

  • Multilevel is not supported for work items linked from Data Center instances. Those items will use the Default estimation type instead.

  • Duplicated work items are calculated once, even if they appear in multiple places in the hierarchy. If a work item that's already part of a subtree is also linked directly to the idea, only its own subtree contributes to the calculation.

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

Estimation values

• 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 space.

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.