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Use this page when a Linear issue already has an estimate and you need to translate that planning signal into an hours conversation. Linear estimates are effort or size values, depending on the team's scale: Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. Those values support scope planning, but they do not equal clock time by themselves.
A useful review starts with the issue's team, project, assignee, status, labels, cycle, and estimate. Keep the point value visible, then attach actual tracked hours to the same issue context. A 5-point issue and a 12-hour result are two different facts: one describes expected effort, the other records time actually spent.
Points work best as relative size. Hours work best as measured duration, billing input, and cost input. Treating 1 point as a fixed number of hours too early creates false precision, especially when one 3-point issue contains discovery work and another 3-point issue contains familiar implementation.
Build the comparison after work finishes. Review estimated effort points beside tracked hours, then ask whether the variance came from under-scoped work, interrupted execution, unclear acceptance criteria, or missing time records. The same point value can produce different hour totals across projects, so the review needs issue-level context rather than a universal conversion table.
A point-to-hours review needs the issue estimate, the final status, the assignee, the date range, and the logged time. Add comments when the hour total looks unusual. A short note such as "API dependency changed scope after review" explains why a planned 3-point issue consumed more time than similar work.
Use cycle windows as review periods, not as proof that every issue inside the window followed the same pattern. Compare work completed during the cycle date range with the issue estimates and tracked hours attached to those issues. Large overruns deserve a scope note; large underruns deserve a check for unrecorded time before the team treats the estimate as accurate.
A one-off comparison is enough when you need to inspect one issue, explain a variance in a retro, or clean up a project review. It gives the team a concrete read on whether the estimate held and whether the time record is complete enough to trust.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when estimates vs. actuals inform budgets, staffing, and client conversations. Everhour can sync Linear projects and issues, capture timer or manual entries from inside Linear through the browser extension, and carry those hours into customizable reports with grouping, filters, date ranges, and export formats for recurring review.
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Linear estimate points can be compared with hours, but they should not be treated as a fixed conversion unless your team has defined and tested that rule. Linear estimate values represent effort or size. Tracked hours represent time actually spent. A better practice is to review completed issues and build a historical range for similar work.
The best scale is the one your team applies consistently. Linear supports Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, and T-Shirt estimate scales. Hour reviews become useful when the same team uses the same scale across similar issues, then compares completed issue points with tracked hours over a defined date range.
A point estimate misses actual hours when the issue scope changes, acceptance criteria stay unclear, work waits on outside dependencies, or time entries are incomplete. Separate those causes during review. Under-scoped work changes future planning. Missing time records require timesheet cleanup before the estimate history can guide the next plan.
Points and hours should appear together when the report is used for planning review, budget explanation, or estimate accuracy. Keep the columns separate. A report that shows issue, estimate, assignee, status, logged hours, and variance lets the team learn from completed work without pretending that points and hours measure the same thing.
Past hour data should inform the next planning window by showing how many actual hours similar estimated issues consumed. Use the cycle or sprint dates as the review range, then inspect completed issues inside that period. Keep dates and effort separate: a deadline shows timing pressure, while tracked hours show labor spent.
Everhour Reporting can turn synced Linear project and issue data, tracked time, date ranges, filters, grouping, and custom columns into estimate-vs-actual reports. Teams can export reports as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF when the review needs a spreadsheet, client file, or project archive.
Everhour embeds timer and manual time-entry controls in Linear through its browser extension. Team members can log time against the issue they are working on, while synced Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data stays available for reports.
Compare Linear issue estimates with tracked hours in Everhour, then turn variance into reports that improve future budgets, staffing decisions, and planning accuracy.
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