Everhour brings tracked hours into Linear issue work, so duration reviews can separate effort, age, and estimate variance.
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Use this page when you need a clean answer for one piece of Linear work: the issue, the planned effort, the hours recorded against it, and the variance after completion. The task is practical. You need to explain whether the issue fit the plan, consumed extra time, or carried missing time entries before you use it in a project or cycle review.
A good record keeps the issue's operational context next to the time data. Linear issues belong to a team and can include a project, cycle, status, assignee, priority, label, and estimate value. Those details explain why two issues with the same logged hours can mean different things: one was blocked, one changed scope, and one finished quickly because the estimate was high.
Start with the estimate value on the Linear issue, the owner, current status, project, and any cycle window you are reviewing. Estimate scales used on Linear issues can be Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt, with optional extended ranges. Treat that value as a size signal. It gives you a planning baseline, while actual time entries create the work record.
Then attach actual work to the same issue identity. The useful fields are issue title, project, assignee, status, estimate value, time entries, comments for unusual work, and review date range. A sample issue line can read: API retry fix, owner Dana, estimate 3 points, tracked time 6.25 hours, variance note: retry behavior changed after QA.
Phrases like duration, age, cycle time, and lead time often get mixed together. For this workflow, keep logged work hours separate from calendar elapsed time. An issue opened Monday and closed Friday can hold 2 hours of recorded work or 22 hours of recorded work. The elapsed week helps explain waiting and handoffs; the logged hours show the labor you need for staffing, billing, and budget review.
The same separation keeps estimate variance readable. An overrun means tracked hours exceeded the task-hour estimate or the hour expectation your team recorded outside Linear's point value. A small tracked total on a long-open issue points to waiting, blocked time, or unrecorded work. Review the status history and comments before treating either case as better or worse estimating.
A one-off review is enough when you are checking a single issue, preparing a small retro note, or cleaning up a project handoff. You can list the issue, estimate value, hours logged, elapsed dates, and variance reason in a simple table. That table gives a manager the answer for one decision without creating a permanent workflow.
A managed workflow is worth using when many Linear projects, assignees, and review periods need the same treatment. Everhour's Linear integration adds timer and manual logging controls through the browser extension, syncs workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports, and supports task-hour estimates with remaining or over-estimate hours. That record turns issue-duration checks into estimate history for future budgets.
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Issue duration has two common meanings: elapsed calendar time and recorded work time. Logged hours are the measured labor tied to the issue. Elapsed time shows age, waiting, and handoffs. A review that mixes them will call a five-day waiting period a five-day work effort, which gives staffing and budget planning the wrong signal.
Estimate values on Linear issues represent effort or size, using scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. They are planning values and do not equal hours by themselves. Use them as the baseline for comparison, then read the actual duration from tracked time entries and the review window you selected.
Keep the issue title, project, assignee, status, labels, cycle window, estimate value, recorded hours, and a short variance note. Add comments when work was blocked, re-scoped, or recorded late. Those fields make the review explainable without forcing the next manager to reconstruct context from memory.
Bad variance usually comes from one of three causes: the issue was under-scoped, the time record is incomplete, or the work changed after the estimate value was set. Heavy logged hours with specific comments points to scope or complexity. Light logged hours with a late completion date points to waiting or missing entries.
A cycle window should only define the dates under review. Logged time still belongs to the issue and person who entered it. Reviewing work by the same date window as the cycle helps a planning discussion, but it should not convert carryover work into a new estimate error automatically.
Everhour Reporting can build a report with a chosen date range, grouping, filters, and 45+ report columns. With Linear connected, synced project, issue, status, and tag data can sit beside logged time, so managers can review issue duration and variance by the work context they already use.
Everhour's Linear integration uses the browser extension to place timer and manual logging controls inside Linear. The embedded view can show issue timers, estimates, and reported time, so a developer can record work without separating the entry from the issue.
Connect Linear issue work to Everhour Reporting, compare tracked hours with Everhour task-hour estimates by project and task, and keep planning, budget, and client conversations grounded in clean estimate history inside Everhour.
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