Hi All,
We are facing a strange problem. Someone keeps updating sprint # field in Jira against EPICS which is causing following problems.
- As we all know, at the time of starting sprint, JIRA records total of all story points as team commitment. This is based on all the cards assigned to sprint. Now, in our case, since epics also being assigned to sprint, estimate of epic also getting added to team commitment which gives wrong picture of team commitment. In other words, if team commits to do work of say 50 points in a sprint, JIRA shows team commitment as something 200, 250 or so because it counts points given to epics as well.
- These epics start appearing on team’s daily sprint board which is annoyance as team want to see what they are working on which are stories, tasks, bugs etc. Epic is not workable or actionable item for them but they end up seeing epic as well every day whenever they refer sprint board. This is unnecessary.
How to solve this? As per me, Epics should not be assigned to sprint. What do you say?
