Can Jira burnup chart be used at Epic level (not sprint level)?

[Wendy Xu]

Hi everyone,

Jira has built-in sprint burndown and burnup reports, but I’m struggling to use the Jira burnup chart for tracking progress at the Epic level.

We created a custom Epic issue type, and the standard jira burnup chart seems tightly connected to sprints. It doesn’t really reflect overall progress for an Epic that spans multiple sprints.

Has anyone managed to build a jira burnup chart specifically for Epics? Did you handle it manually (for example, exporting to Excel), or is there a better way to track Epic-level progress over time?

[elita_kalane]

Hi @Wendy Xu 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You could achieve this with the eazyBI Reports and Charts for Jira app. It allows you to create Epic-level burnup and burndown charts that track progress in varioys/custom ways.Here are some burn-up/burn-down examples from our Demo account that you can explore:

1. Issue burndown in Epic - https://eazybi.com/accounts/1000/cubes/Issues/reports/198349-issue-burn-down-in-epic

2. Story point burnup in Epic over time - https://eazybi.com/accounts/1000/cubes/Issues/reports/198360-story-points-burn-up-in-epic-over-time
3. Story points burn-down by Epic across multiple sprints - https://eazybi.com/accounts/1000/cubes/Issues/reports/68000-story-points-burn-down-by-sprints-for-epic

These reports can track progress based on issue count or story points, or logged hours, show trends and forecasts. You can easily export these report templates from the Demo account and import them into your own eazyBI instance to see how they work with your data.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at support@eazybi.com

Best,

Elita from support@eazybi.com

[Vasyl Krokha _Broken Build_]

Hi Wendy!

Jira's built-in burndown/burnup reports are tied to sprints and don't work well when you need to track progress at the Epic level - especially with custom issue types. Exporting to Excel is one workaround, but it's manual and hard to maintain.

There's a Jira app called Agile Burnup Burndown Charts that addresses this directly. It lets you select one or more Epics as a data source, filter by any issue type (including custom ones), configure Done statuses, choose your estimation field, and generate both burnup and burndown charts with forecasting built in.

Docs: Using Epics as a data source | Issue filtering
Interactive examples: Epic Burndown and Epic Burnup charts examples - a clickable demo showing how the charts work

Feel free to follow up if you have questions - happy to help!

[Danut M [StonikByte]]

Hi @Wendy Xu,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

You could try the Epic Burndown report in Jira, as it is supposed to provide similar functionality. Unfortunately, the report is not very straightforward and not so flexible. See also its documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/view-and-understand-the-epic-burndown-report/

If this is not enough, a potential solution would be to search for a plugin on Atassian Marketplace that provides such chart. 

If you are willing to try a plugin, our Great Gadgets app offers all you need for tracking your epics easily end efficiently.   

You can display an epic burndown chart with forecast by using its Release Burndown Burnup Chart gadget. 

In addition, it provides many other effective ways to track epics. For example, you can display epic completion based on the number of story points burned in a table format or charts, which can be highly insightful and relevant.

 See this article for more details: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/How-to-display-the-progress-of-Epics-or-Initiatives-in-Jira-or/ba-p/2858840

Danut.

[Marc -Devoteam-]

Hi @Wendy Xu 

Welcome to the community.

This can be done in space reporting, based that a company manged project is used, on team-managed projects this is not possible.

See; https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/view-and-understand-the-epic-burndown-report/ 

You could do this in Plans, but this requires a Premium subscription, as your tag mentions that you are on a Free instance, you could look at 3rd party integrations from the Atlassian Marketplace