Dependencies management in Jira

[Rad P]

Hello all,

I am looking to best dependencies management process in Jira which would involve:

1. record dependencies - how, what link to use? Link between two issues or create separate RAID board for them or any other suggestion?

2. view dependencies - how to get a view of dependencies? what tool to use to display dependencies ... dashboard, confluence etc?

3. track dependencies - is it possible to view the variance between linked issues? use of plug ins?

Any advise would be appreciated, thank you.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Rad,

What kind of dependencies you are specifically talking about? Can you provide us with a practical example of how you want to configure it?

Per your description, I think that you are specifically referring to issues dependencies, in a scenario where one issue cannot proceed while another is not finished/progressed yet. Is that correct?

That being said, I will try to answer your questions accordingly with what I have supposed:

This kind of "dependency" can be achieved with the Parent Status Validator on JIRA, however, it can only be configured with the link between Parent issues and sub-tasks, which is a very limited feature.

If you want to have more dependencies options, I recommend you to try the plugin PortFolio For JIRA, which have a variety of dependencies that you can use, view and track as you want:

- Using Scope and Dependencies

Please, take a look at the documentation above and try the plugin to confirm if this is the feature you are looking for, Rad.