How to accept stories with CI/CD in JIRA

Lars Böhnke_8d6c35

Hey community! I am a PO and for our product we're using JIRA and CI/CD and Scrum. That said, I don't accept a story at the end of the sprint but rather immediately when the story is finished.

We have a DoD which contains several things among fulfilled acceptance criteria. So when a dev things a story is done and it has passed code review and the PR is merged, the story is transitioned to done.

What I'm struggling now with is how to accept the story. In a true Kanban style we're not moving issues back on the Scrum board. So for example if during code review some issues come up which the dev needs to address, the issue stays in the 'In Review' column until that is done.

Would you introduce a new status 'Accepted'? To be honest I would try to not do this but rather keep things simple. However I am clueless how to accept stories and manage the process behind it. During a sprint stories will naturally pile up so it is a bit hard to keep track of stories which I cannot accept (yet). Any ideas? Would appreciate your thoughts!

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Lars,

I hope you are having a nice day.

Analyzing the scenario you described, I believe that a new status would be the most reasonable option to achieve your need.

You could create a new status called Waiting for approval and even add workflow conditions that will only allow the responsible team to accept it.

Another option would be to use sub-tasks to track each step of the Story or use the same hierarchy relation with Epics-Stories. I think this option would better organize and describe the details and tracking of each step in your Stories, however, it would not keep things in the simplest way you want.

A third option would be to create a linked issue to verify all the acceptance Criteria regarding the issue. This would be a good practice to separate the estimated time of the development team from the team which will verify the acceptance Criteria Steps, however, I think it will also fall behind when you talk about simplicity.

Let me know if one of the options above helps you.