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Estimation slider
With the Agile Estimate app, you estimate a Jira issue by simply moving the slider:
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On the screen above Story “AD-3” is the issue to be estimated. The slider for AD-3 is set to 5 story points and therefore on Comparison View, we see other Jira issues also estimated as 5 story points. Now we can compare AD-3 with issues from the Comparison View list and answer whether the effort needed to complete AD-3 Story looks like 5 story points or not.
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So, the approach is pretty straighforwardstraightforward: move the slider and instantly compare the Jira issue in focus with previously estimated ones. |
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The issues on Comparison View are sorted top-bottom according to the following rules applied sequentially:
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Compare with a wider range of issues
You may want to compare not only the same size Jira issues, like 3 story points to 3 story points, but see smaller or bigger issues to compare with. Here is how you can do this on Comparison View:
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So, however, the AD-4 slider is in position “5”, we have extended the list of Jira issues on Comparison View to show issues estimated from 3 to 5 story points.
Star (pin) issues to set a baseline for estimation
You can star favourite favorite issues in Comparison View - it allows you to promote such issues to the top of the list. This, in turn, allows you to establish a baseline for issue sizing and do comparison estimation faster.
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If you click on the yellow star for a Jira issue (or double-click the transparent star), then such a Jira issue is pinned to the top of the list on Comparison View. No matter what estimates are shown on Comparison View, you will always see pinned (blue star) Jira issues on top of the list:
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Use blue stars to set a baseline for estimates and pin them to be always visible. Usually, you will use “1” and “2” estimates as baselines. |