Linear estimates use effort points, while Everhour keeps issue hours ready for cycle review and billing.
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A Linear cycle gives you a time-boxed group of issues to review after the work period ends. Each issue carries planning context such as assignee, priority, labels, project, cycle, status, and estimate. Everhour adds the time record beside that work, so the same issue can show who worked on it and how much time they logged.
That record helps separate delivery from effort. A completed issue can consume more hours than expected relative to its effort-point estimate. An unfinished issue can show little logged time because it stayed blocked or more logged time because investigation began before the team moved it forward.
A useful review keeps two columns side by side: the Linear effort-point estimate and the Everhour hours logged to the same issue. The estimate captures relative size or effort. The logged hours capture time actually spent. The gap between them is a signal for review, not a direct mathematical variance.
Large gaps need a reason before they change the next plan. Extra hours against a low-point issue can point to under-scoped implementation, hidden review work, unclear acceptance criteria, or time entered against the wrong issue. Low hours against a high-point issue can mean the work was split, postponed, or closed before the planned scope was complete.
A cycle gives the team a review window. It does not turn a due date into an effort measure. Dates answer whether work landed inside the planned period. Hours answer how much time the work consumed. Linear effort points answer relative scope or size, and those three signals should stay separate.
The clean review pattern is simple: filter the issues in the cycle window, check their status, then read Linear effort-point estimates beside Everhour logged hours. Points, labels, priority, and assignee explain planning choices. Time entries show measured work and give the team a record to inspect.
A one-off review is enough when you need a quick read on a single cycle: planned Linear effort points, actual logged hours, and the issue-level gaps that deserve follow-up. That works for retrospectives, small teams, and short client check-ins where the record does not need to feed billing or accounting.
A managed workflow matters when the same data must support future budgets, invoice preparation, and estimate accuracy over time. Everhour can log time on Linear issues through embedded controls, compare tracked time against task estimates in reports, and turn billable time and expenses into invoices with rates, taxes, discounts, and payment terms.
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Compare each issue's Linear effort-point estimate separately from the Everhour hours logged to that issue. The point value shows planned size or effort, while tracked hours show time spent. Review the largest gaps first and label the cause in plain language.
Points and hours should stay separate. Points describe relative effort or size for planning, while hours measure time actually spent. A fixed conversion hides useful variance and makes future planning less reliable because the two measures answer different questions.
Entries need extra detail when logged hours look high beside the issue's effort-point estimate, when several people work on one issue, or when the work includes investigation, rework, review, or client communication. A short comment gives the reviewer enough context to understand the gap.
Deadlines measure calendar timing. Effort estimates measure expected size or effort in Linear points. A cycle issue can meet its date and still take many logged hours, or miss its date with little logged work because it was blocked. Review both signals separately.
Review becomes misleading when people log time late, spread one issue's work across unrelated issues, or close an issue before all related review and cleanup time is recorded. The next plan improves only when the estimate and logged hours describe the same scope.
Everhour Billing & Invoicing can convert tracked billable time and expenses into client invoices, calculating amounts from rates while excluding non-billable work. Client defaults can carry contact details, taxes, discounts, and payment terms into the invoice draft.
Everhour embeds time controls in Linear through its browser extension and syncs Linear projects, issues, status, and tags into reports. That lets teams review logged time beside the same issue structure used for cycle planning.
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