Can you log more work on an issue than the estimate?

[Jeff Guthrie]

The reason you may want to do this is that it will show you that you estimated one number but it turned out to be a lot bigger than you thought.

Thanks!

[Colin Goudie · Accepted solution]

Yes for sure. The remaining estimate will display 0. Some of the JIRA bundled reports also will then show you this variance

[Jeff Guthrie]

Hmmm... This is not working for me. I have a card with a 4 hour estimate, 2 hours left. If I try to log 3 more hours of work I get an error which says: " Remaining estimate must be 0 or larger". (Jira 4.4.3, Greenhopper 5.8.3)

Configuration setting I am missing?

[Colin Goudie]

mm, maybe then a greenhopper issue. I've definitely logged more hours that estimated but that would be via normal JIRA worklog