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How do I analyse why the points in an epic or project have changed over time.

Nick Hollingsworth
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June 13, 2019

I want to see a history of the stories and points that make up either a project backlog or an epic.

I want this in order to answer questions about why the total estimated amount of work in the project has changed over time and where that change has come from. There will have been changes in story point sizes due to improving estimation, some new stories or stories that split, plus stories that we dropped or moved out of scope or merged with others. The net effect of  this is that the total story points change, but I cant work out how to get at all this information in Jira.

As an example I would be happy with this result: given an epic or backlog I end up with a spreadsheet that holds stories as rows, sprints as columns and the cells are the story points for that story during that sprint. From this I can see whats been added or removed or resized and when and I can track and explain these changes and hence expected completion dates.

At the moment, because I don't know if this data is available, I'm assuming I will have to remember to export the data from Jira each sprint and create some way to manage it myself.

Interested in details of how to access this data or explanations of how I should organise stories in Jira so I can see how backlogs have changed.

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Belto
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June 25, 2019

Amongst all the available reports for Software that keeps track of scope changes, the Burnup Chart, Epic Report and Epic Burndown are good solutions.

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