How do I combine to fields to calculate effort?

[Bradley]

I am trying to figure out how I can use 2 custom fields (DevEstimate and QAEstimate) to calculate my overall effort?

When we are asking for our LOE we like both our developers and QA engineers to give their LOE to give the overall Estimate for a task.

Is there a way to do this and could we use these fields while setting up a sprint?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

What do you think with next idea? 

1. Epic is just umbrella issue for global task. 

2. And on task level we have 2 issue where one of that is QA related, next is Dev related. Both tasks are estimated based on the next system field. Original and remaining estimated. 

3. On Epic you can see the result of estimation, which is effort. 

Or another one is  based on the task and subtask hierarhy

[Bradley]

Yeah, I had definitely considered using both as separate tasks.  That would work with the way Jira is configured. 

However, we are just introducing sprints for the first time so we tried to avoid making global changes to everything and keeping the workflow the same as they are used to seemed a good idea.  Also, it keeps both Dev and QA involved in the estimations for the sprint.

[Alexander Pappert]

If your 2 existing fields are number fields, you can use one of the many script addons to aoutomatically calculate your LOE field.

something like this:
LOE = DevEst + QAEst

[Bradley]

I haven't created the fields yet but ideally I wanted to create date / time fields that could accept in the estimation format; i.e. 1d, 1h, etc.

Are there field types for this that could then be added together?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

What is this LOE?

[Bradley]

Level of Effort - their estimate on how much effort is required to complete their task