How to give estimation to sub-tasks?

[Kerli Loopman]

I need to estimate all the issues. I configured a Kanban project and found out that it should have a scrum board to estimate issues. So I did create another scrum board for that project. Actually the team is not using scrum that much (no need for sprints and so on). 

Now I can estimate issues on backlog view on scrum board but since the sub-tasks are not shown there, I can't estimate them. Is there any way to do this?

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

@Kerli Loopman, 

I think generally the answer is that estimating at the subtask level is not the best practice as you should be completing stories during a sprint, and not specific subtasks.

Why are you trying to estimate subtasks?

Thanks,

Kian

[Kerli Loopman]

Hi @Kian Stack Mumo Systems It is something that a customer wants to do in their project. They are not actually scrum team, they don't use sprints but they do want to track how much time has been estimated on the issue and how much is tracked. 

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

@Kerli Loopman, 

A subtask is just representing a piece of work to be completed on a story/task level issue. Because of that, the estimates are done at the parent level as the teams will commit to delivering an entire story, not just a portion of it. If you just want to see how much time is estimated vs. tracked, why can't you do that at the parent level?

Thanks,

Kian

[Kerli Loopman]

I understand but this is something that customer wants for their project. I just want to know if this is even possible in JSW DC. 

It seems to me that they want each task (including subtasks) to have their own estimation + tracked time. Ofcourse they can check it at the parent level but they want to estimate everything based on each individual task separately.