Managing time spent across issues

[Eva Hlín Dereksdóttir]

Hi,

How can I monitor time spent across multiple issues?

I thought I could do this by creating an epic and grouping the issues on epics. Employees log their time against issues and hence the time spent is displayed on each issue. I though then that the epic would sum up time spent on all issues linked to the epic. However this doesn‘t seem to be the case. Is this perhaps configurable?

If this is not configurable I don‘t quite see the use for epics, I would have thought that summing up time spent was one of the key benefits of epics, providing overview of a group of issues.  

Also if this it not configurable how can I sum up the time spent across several issues? I want to be able to provide a time estimate/budget for a group of issues and then track usage across those issues and compare to the given budget.

Thanks.

[Kat Warner]

Thank you for asking this question. I've added myself as a watcher :)

[Eva Hlín Dereksdóttir]

You're welcome :) Let's wait a few more days and see if we get an answer to this one!

[Jack Brickey]

this question has been discussed a few times in the community. Try this link to reference related threads.

Here are some options:

• There are some reports that provide various time analysis. Head over to Project/Reports and have a look.
• Consider a time reporting addon from the marketplace. Here is a link to peruse. I use Time Reports for Jira Cloud and it works well.