Quick summary
Story points in Jira are used to estimate the effort required for each issue, helping teams plan and track sprint capacity more accurately. This tutorial shows how to enable and assign the Story point estimate field to a Jira issue using the issue layout configuration.
Steps
- Open the issue you want to work with in your Jira project.
- In the issue details panel, click 'Configure' to access layout settings.
- Under 'Fields', go to the search bar and enter 'Story points' to locate the field.
- Click 'Story point estimate' to add it to the issue layout.
- Select 'Save changes' to apply the updated field configuration.
- The story points are now assigned to the issue and will contribute to your sprint or project's total points estimation.
