Best practices to manage Epics

[roy adams]

In Jira,
The backlog view won't show Epics (unless you click the epic tab).
It makes sense, in a way, because the tickets are organized by sprints (and Epics can take number of sprints to complete, so no point in assigning a sprint to an epic).

But - if I leave my Epics without a sprint, how do you avoid a situation where you end up with open Epics, and all the tickets under those epics are already closed?

what's the best practice in this scenario?

Thanks

Roy

[Yong Yang · Accepted solution]

Hi @roy adams 

Welcome to our Community.

Do you need to auto close the Epic once all its child issues are closed? If so, I think jira automation will help you with it.

Thanks,

YY哥

[roy adams]

Thank you YY. Closing epics automatically could cause unintended consequences (let's say all child tickets are closed, but the epic should stay open because more tickets are about to be added to it).

To resolve this, I won't assign sprints to Epic, and have it as part of the PI planning process to find open epics with no child tickets and close them. There's room for error in this process (epics get missed and stay open) but it's good enough.