Tracking work with issues
You can plan and track your work on a project by using issues. Each issue is a piece of work kept in a distinct record. Issues can be broken down into tasks to further organize and track the work of that issue. You can also create links between issues to help you keep track of related work, add labels to help you organize and categorize work, group issues, assign priorities to work, and indicate whether work is blocked.
When you're ready to work on an issue or set of issues, you can estimate the work, assign them to users, and add comments to help others understand the work and its progress. You can also export issues to help bring the information they contain into other formats.
Estimating an issue
In agile development, the estimate is known as story points. You can use the estimate for an issue to represent the amount of work required, in addition to the ambiguity and complexity of the issue. Consider using higher estimates for issues with greater risk, difficulty, and unknowns.
Before you can begin estimating your issues, you must first choose what type of estimates you want to use for your project. There are two types to choose from by default. To use either T-shirt sizing or Fibonacci sequencing effectively, your team must align on what each size represents. Decide together what each estimate represents to you, and then start applying those estimates to each issue. Consider periodically reviewing
Follow these steps to configure the setting for effort estimations for issues in CodeCatalyst.
To configure effort estimation for issues
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In the navigation pane, choose Issues.
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Choose Active issues to open the issues view switcher dropdown menu and choose Settings.
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In Estimation in the Basic settings section, choose how the estimation values will be displayed. The types of estimates available are T-shirt sizing, Fibonacci sequencing, or Hide estimates. If the project's estimation setting is set to Hide estimates, there will not be an Estimation field in the issues for the project.
When the estimation type is updated, no data will be lost and the estimation value of all issues will be converted automatically. The conversion mapping is shown in the following table.
T-shirt size Fibonacci sequence XS
1
XS
2
S
3
M
5
L
8
XL
13
To add or change an estimate for an issue, you can edit the issue.
