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I am into my 3rd Sprint and realized to track team velocity I can not track a sub-task. On the board, I can set up to view subtasks to stories. Is there a way to get Tasks to follow the stories on the board in the same or a similar manner. Visually its harder to follow a task of a story when it floats around on the board.

What am I missing? How can I set the board up visually for Tasks to Follow the Story.

Thank You Randy

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Randy D Mosier

In the boards for Team Managed projects you cannot have both Sub-tasks and their parent issues display as "cards" on the board simultaneously. If you are not specifically grouping by Sub-tasks, cards for sub-tasks will not display at all. Instead they issues that have subtasks will show this symbol

On a board for a Company Managed project, both Sub-tasks and their parent issues will show up as cards in their respective status columns. When the Sub-task and parent issue have the same status it looks like this

When they have different statuses, the parent issue card will display in the column for its status, and the Sub-task in the column that matches its status, and the Sub-task will have a header above it for its parent issue.

Randy D Mosier · Answer

Additionally, when I try View by Assignee....not all of their tasks that are assigned or stories show up on the board. So sub-tasks do not appear....stories and tasks only?

Randy D Mosier · Answer

Currently utilizing a team-managed board.

Visually the struggle is seeing work in progress as the view options on the board are to group by sub-task or assignee. My two teams liked having:

1. The sub-tasks attached to the story card

2. Setting the board up to see the tasks [sub-tasks] all below the story.

I was looking for a way to have the Task cards present in the same manner and it appears not possible. During the Daily Scrum it's helpful to see the work associated with the story altogether.

It was not until the end of the second Scrum I realized that sub-tasks are not considered in the team to burn up, burn down, or velocity. So I know I need to have the team use Epic-Story-Task as the framework on the board.

Is the Company run board different in its presentation, perhaps I missed something as I can set up, either way, choose a team run scrum board. Had not determined advantages or disadvantages. "Newbee".

Attached is our current board setup. From what I can see my only alternative is an assignee view; not sure why we cannot set up the board with the task view just like a sub-task so the view presents with the story and work following it.

Thoughts...guidance. Thanks @Trudy P Claspill