Sprint goals in Jira

[Jakub Sławiński]

Hi,

what do you use to set and track sprint goals for your teams? Is there any 'Jira way' to do that?

How do you monitor long-term goals?

Regards,

  Jakub.

[Johnny Hermann]

On a Jira Scrum board's Backlog view, you can "edit" a sprint (from the "..." menu on the right).  On the dialog, you can enter free text into the "Sprint goal" field.

A sprint's "Sprint goal" shows up:

• On the Backlog view, under the sprint name, assuming the particular sprint is "expanded" (via the chevon control next to the sprint name).
• On the Active sprint view, under the sprint name.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Jakub,

I understand that you are asking about the tracking methods that you can use to measure the estimation and where your Sprint is or will be at any time, to be aware of your team progress and if it is currently running after/before the expected. Is that correct?

JIRA have two ways to measure your team progress:

1 - Using Story Points: Story points are a commonly used measure for estimating the size of an issue in scrum teams. During a typical planning session, a trivial bug fix might be estimated as a 1 or 2, and a larger feature might be anything up to a 12. Note that the scale of points does vary between scrum teams. Some use 1-12, others 1-5. The key is to use the same scale so that your velocity is consistently calculated.

The focus is on story points here because it's the more common scrum estimation method, and we use it at Atlassian. Your company may use hours or ideal days.

For more information, check the Story points session of the documentation below:

- Configuring Estimation and Tracking

2 - Using Time Tracking fields: Time tracking lets your team record the specific time (Weeks, days, Hours, minutes...) they spend working on issues. It is based on three fields:

Original Time Estimate - This is the initial time estimation that you want to set for your issues.

Remaining Estimate - This is the time remaining for your issues. (Original Time Estimate less Time Spent)

Time Spent - This is the work time logged by your users.

For more information, check the documentation below:

- Configuring Time Tracking

Let us know if this information helps! :)