Work Flow Good Practice - Is it good to create different Workflows for Sub status?

Question

Work Flow Status(Story/Sub Task):

We are having a Workflow for my story and we are trying to create different subs tasks like Development,QA, SIT, UAT as part of that User Story and different Work flows for each Sub task. Is this a right Approach or do we have any other way to handle the same.

Note: Development,QA,SIT,UAT will be created as new issue type and then different workflow for each and then attaching this under US.

Antoine Berry · Answer

Well I do not know your specific workflow (is it for software development?) so in the end you have to figure it out. Few points which are (imo) worthy to consider :

* Do you really need sub-tasks ? It is not striking to me to have a workflow with these statuses (Dev -> Design -> QA -> SIT -> UAT). In this case you do not need a custom field.
* Consider subtask if multiple actions need to be performed within the same period, or/and different people are needed to complete each stage. In this case you can use a list custom field.
* Depending on what add-ons you are using, you can customize your Story workflow to progress or be blocked according to sub-tasks.

prakash nagarajan · Answer

It can be accomplished with Multi select Custom Field instead of creating different workflows for different sub task. Just worried as few were saying its not good Practice.

The Ask is - For Design status in Work Flow they wanted to track whether Design in Progress,Design Sign off in Progress,Design on Hold, Design Signed off.

Approach 1 : Create Custom Field with Multi Select Option

Approach 2: Create a new Sub task Issue type as Design and create workflow like mentioned above.

Note: We have 5+ Status like Dev,Design,QA,SIT,UAT. This needs to be done for all

prakash nagarajan · Answer

It can be accomplished with Multi select Custom Field instead of creating different workflows for different sub task. Just worried as few were saying its not good Practice.

The Ask is - For Design status in Work Flow they wanted to track whether Design in Progress,Design Sign off in Progress,Design on Hold, Design Signed off.

Approach 1 : Create Custom Field with Multi Select Option

Approach 2: Create a new Sub task Issue type as Design and create workflow like mentioned above.

Note: We have 5+ Status like Dev,Design,QA,SIT,UAT. This needs to be done for all.