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Jira Agile: Claim story points at a stage other than closed/done


I have a scrum process in place for my team and i want to make a little change in the JIRA Agile plugin. I have four columns:

  1. Open/Todo
  2. In Progress
  3. Resolved/In UAT
  4. Closed/Done

when I place a story in closed column the burndown chart shows the claimed story point and the graph goes down. What I want to do is change that and make JIRA claim the story points as soon as I have put a story into Resolved column. This is because my definition of "done" is once the developer has finished working on a story and has performed unit testing we will call that story "done".


Solution

  • The minimum definition of done should be working software. You can't have working software unless it has been tested.

    "The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less during which a “Done”, useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created." - Scrum Guide on Sprints

    If you dont have working software at the end of the sprint then you dont have transparency, and you can't inspect and adapt. In short your development process can't be Empirical.

    Without an empirical process you will not be building the right software, you will have excessive rework (as QA finds issues) and you are wasting your Product Owners money.