While supporting many agile projects and scrum teams regarding methods and tools we very often encountered a serious gap in the standard JIRA scrum board. Typically a development team needs to check the distribution of workload on the team members basing on the work breakdown, estimations and assignments of the user stories. But this is not easily done for two reasons: first of all JIRA does not completely show sums of sub tasks and secondly there is no comparison to available capacity (project assignments).
The new dialog popup directly provides up to date sums of remaining efforts of tasks and / or subtasks in the selected sprint and compares it to the planned assignments for the respective timeframe. As teams are using different approaches for estimation different aggregation methods (view modes) can be selected.
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