Newbie confused by hierarchy!

[David Hay]

Apologies for another newbie question...

I'm moving over to a company-managed software project, and am confused which hierarchy structure to use.

I assumed that we would just use Epic -> Story -> Task -> Sub-Task, however apparently that's not possible?!

I'm also super-confused that a SubTask does not support point estimates?

I don't remember any of this when we used Jira previously (although we had scrum masters setting everything up).

Please could someone advise on the best hierarchy to use that utilizes the Jira capabilities for point estimates, scrumban, etc..

[John Funk]

Hi David,

Jira has implemented a standard Agile hierarchy for those work types. Story and Task sit at the same level. Sub-tasks can be either under a Story or under a Task. Estimation is not typically done at the Sub-task level - that's way down in the weeds.