Jira

  • Project management tool.

Jira is a popular project management tool from Atlassian. Many teams use Jira to track work to be done as well as bugs to be fixed.

Jira is a highly configurable tool. Depending on your team, you will have many fields associated with a task. The following are examples that I have seen in the past.

Task Size Estimation

I have seen several variants on schemes for sizing tasks. The sizing values should be agreed on by the team. Once a scheme is determined is should be adhered to.

The one I last used is based on T-shirt sizes.

Size
Duration

XXS

< 2 hours

XS

< 1 day

S

2-3 days

M

< 1 week

L

2 weeks

XL

Months

Priority

Priority is an indication of when a task should be done.

Most often you will see priorities P1-P4. The bigger the number, the lower the priority.

Priority
Interpretation

0

"Drop everything"

An abnormal emergency.

1

High

Required for next release MVP

2

Normal

Requested for the next release.

3

Low

Get to it when we can.

You would never schedule a normal task as a P0; that designation is reserved for emergency bug fixes.


MVP - minimum value proposition.

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