Help Creating a Sprint not locating epic

[Marlene Ngu]

I am new to using Jira want to create a sprint but not able to proceed to create Epic

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Marlene Ngu 

Can you clarify what you mean by "proceed to create Epic"?

Epic and Sprint creation is separate natively.

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Epic:

To create an Epic, this will need to be an issue type available in your project. Both Scrum Next-Gen and Classic project templates have Epics as an issue type by default.

There's a few options to create an Epic, but one option which works for both types is:

1. In Jira, select the blue "Create" button on the navigation bar
2. Select Epic from the "Issue Type" field
3. Populate the needed fields then press "Create"

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Sprint:

To create a Sprint, you'll need the appropriate "Manage Sprints" permissions. Again, both Next-Gen and Classic projects should have the right permissions by default (unless they've been modified).

Then to create a sprint:

1. Go to your project. Your board settings should be in the left-hand menu
2. Select "Backlog" from the menu.
3. In the upper-right corner, press the grey "Create Sprint" button

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If either of these options are missing or you're not able to select them, let us know the issue along with if this is a Next-Gen or Classic Project!

Ste