Configure how your board estimates and tracks work
To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:
a project administrator for the location of the board
a board administrator for the board
See Permissions overview for more information.
When configuring a board, you can set whether work items are estimated in story points, time estimate work items, and how progress is tracked throughout your sprint. This process differs for company-managed and team-managed projects.
To configure project estimates for company-managed projects:
This setting can only be changed for company-managed scrum teams.
Next to your board’s name in the sidebar, select more actions (•••), then Board settings.
Select Estimation from the left-side menu.
Adjust the estimation settings as you desire.
Use the Estimation method dropdown to change how work items are estimated on your board.
Enable Time tracking if you’d like to use a different method to track progress on your board. It’s common for teams to estimate work then track progress using two different methods.
Selecting None uses what you’ve defined as the Estimation method to track progress.
Selecting Remaining estimate and time spent tracks progress by subtracting the value from the Time spent field from the original estimate. Learn more about logging time to work items.
To configure project estimates for team-managed projects:
Estimation isn’t enabled by default in team-managed projects. Enabling estimation causes several changes that you should be aware of before doing it. Learn about the changes that happen when enabling estimation in team-managed projects.
Navigate to your relevant team-managed project.
Next to your project's name in the sidebar, select more actions (•••), then Project settings.
Select Features on the left menu, and turn on Estimation.
Select whether to use Story points or Time.
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