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A story point is an estimate of the relative complexity of a story.

In GreenHopper, you can choose to perform estimation for each board based on either Story Points, hours, or any other numeric field of your choice — see Configuring Estimation and Tracking.

(info) In GreenHopper, story points are implemented via a custom field called "Story Points". Please note:

  • By default, the Story Points field is only available to issues of type 'Story' or 'Epic' (not 'Bugs' etc) — you can change this by 
    • Associating new issue types for story points (see the JIRA custom field documentation).
    • Specifying which screens it will be displayed in (see the JIRA documentation on Defining a Screen).
  • On the Classic Planning Board, this custom field is used in the Scrum template, or any template you configure, and can be displayed on the 'Card', 'Summary' and 'List' view; to ensure it is available when creating cards, it must be present in the Card Style.



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