Global Teams Configuration

Overview

The Teams Configuration lets you configure:

which fields are used to specify the dates and estimates of issues
how to configure a team’s velocity (so that percent compete can be calculated)

This configuration can happen on multiple levels:

Globally across all teams and issue types
Across all issue types for a single team
For a specific issue type for a single team

How the Team is Selected

Each issue is mapped to a team value. The team value determines how values from that issue will be read. If the issue does not have a team value, then the issue’s project key will be used.

Date Form Controls

Start Date Field

The field that represents when the issue is expected to start.

Defaults to:

Start date

End Date Field

The field that represents when the issue is expected to end.

Defaults to:

Due date

Estimate Form Controls

The estimate form controls help calculate the amount of work in days an issue might take. The following table provides some examples of the results of different values:

Estimate	Confidence	Adjusted Estimate	Velocity	Sprint Length	Tracks	Points Per Track per Day	Days
10	100%	10	20	10	1	2	5
10	100%	10	20	10	2	1	10
10	50%	18	20	10	1	2	9

Estimate Field

The estimate field is a number field that provides some sort of estimate of the amount of work on the issue. This will be converted to days of work using the Confidence, Sprint Length, Velocity per Sprint, and Tracks fields.

Defaults to one of the following fields if they exist:

Story points median
Story points

Confidence Field

The confidence field adjusts the estimate using a log-normal distribution. Learn more about this here.

Defaults to the following fields if they exist:

Story points confidence
Confidence

Velocity

How many “estimate units” are completed by the whole team every sprint.

Sprint Length

How many days each sprint takes.

Tracks

On average, how many parallel issues of this type the team will work on at once.

Projects can be set up completely differently across a Jira instance. The fields that represent dates can also vary across issue type.
In order to report on dates, the tool needs to know which date fields it should use.
In order to calculate percentage completion, the tool needs to know which field holds the estimate, the team’s velocity per sprint, and how long a sprint lasts.
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