Use case description: A team is working within a sprint and needs to understand the total effort involved.
A scrum master, team lead, or delivery manager wants to see:
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how much work was planned
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how much time has been spent
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how much work remains
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how effort is distributed across all issues in the sprint
In Jira, sprint views focus on issue status and completion, but do not provide a complete picture of effort across issue hierarchies.
Calculation mode: Cumulative only.
Current Jira setup
Jira provides sprint boards and reports, but they are limited in effort analysis:
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Sprint board: Focuses on issue status, not total effort.
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Burndown and velocity charts: Show trends, but not detailed effort breakdown.
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Flat issue view: Does not account for full issue hierarchies.
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No consistent aggregation: Effort across parent and child issues is not clearly represented.
As a result, understanding total effort within a sprint requires manual analysis or external tools.
What TeamTime provides
TeamTime allows you to analyze sprint work as a complete, structured dataset.
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Select a sprint as the report scope
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Automatically include all issues in the sprint
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Aggregate estimates and logged time across full hierarchies
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View remaining effort and progress ratios
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Analyze sprint work in a detailed, hierarchical report
How it works
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Open the TeamTime global reports page:
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On the right side of your screen, click create report:
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In new report configuration, choose the sprint you want to analyze as the report’s basis:
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Save and open the report:
TeamTime automatically builds a report including all sprint work items and their related hierarchies:
Result
Teams and managers can:
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Understand total sprint effort beyond issue counts
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Track actual work performed, not just completion status
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Identify imbalance or unexpected workload within the sprint.