Add Sprint to Feature when Stories attached are assigned to the Sprint

[Meredith Halverson]

We have found that features are not added to new sprints even though the stories under then are on the next sprint. Is there a way to automate adding the feature to the same sprints the stories are assigned to?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Meredith Halverson 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

When you say Stories are "under features" do you mean you have renamed the native Epic issue type (the normal parent of a Story) to be "Feature"?

Or are you creating a relationship between a Story and a Feature issue type in some other way? Can you show us a screen image of a Feature with Stories under it?

There is nothing in Jira that automatically adds a "parent" issue to a sprint based on the child issue being added to a sprint.

Typically in Scrum methodology you assign items to a sprint based on your commitment to complete the entire item within that sprint. Are you adding all Stories under the Feature to one sprint, committing to completing the entire Feature in that sprint? If not, there is no reason to add the Feature to the sprint.

What problem are you trying to solve by adding the feature to a sprint?

[Meredith Halverson]

I probably should have clarified that the stories are linked to the features since there is a limitation to hierarchy within Jira. I was able to populate the sprint into the linked feature, but is there a way to add it rather than replace what is already there? There may be 3 stories that make up a feature (in our world), and one might be in sprint 1 and the others in sprint 2, so I want to show the feature as being part of both sprints. Here is my current flow:

[Trudy Claspill]

No, you can't do that.

An issue can be associated to only one Active or Planned sprint at a time. 

Again I have to ask what problem are you trying to solve by associating the Feature to sprints? How do you use the Sprint information in the context of Features? There may be an alternate and better solution to solving your problem.