Sub-task estimates not rolling up to the parent issue
Make parent totals and reports reflect the work on their sub-tasks.
When sub-task estimates don’t add up to the parent, your reports look empty. Here is how to make the totals roll up.
The symptom
Every sub-task is estimated, but the parent issue still shows its own value — often zero. Burndown, velocity and time-tracking reports look wrong at the parent level.
Why Jira behaves this way
Jira stores original estimate, remaining estimate and logged work on each issue independently and does not aggregate sub-task values onto the parent.
The manual workaround — and why it falls short
Teams sum the sub-tasks by hand and type the total onto the parent, which is tedious and wrong again the moment any sub-task changes.
How Patcher fixes it
Patcher rolls sub-task estimates and worklogs up to the parent automatically, so burndown, velocity and workload reports finally add up with nothing to maintain per issue.
Turn it on
- Install Patcher for Jira from the Atlassian Marketplace.
- Open Patcher › Patches from your Jira admin.
- Find Sub-task estimate roll-up in the list and switch it on.
- Scope it to the projects you choose, then save — the fix is live immediately.