How can I set start and end dates in subtasks wich are inside Epics in roadmaps?

Bruno Pacini

Hello there,

I am trying to start using Jira for project manager but I am having difficulties to understand how can I use roadmaps to track the dates and deliveries from tasks or stories wich are inside an Epic.

Let me explain more: I have 3 teams from 3 different areas working in the same plataform (design, data and engineer), and we need to find a way to start estimating things and knowing when feature X is going to be lunched. Also, we need to know how much time each steps and tasks from an epic gonna take, and if that task is blocked by any other.

All of this in the roadmap view.

The problem is that when I have an epic, and tasks under this epic, I cannot set the range of data to have a visual representation from that epic and when each thing is gonna be worked. I already tried to activate the trial for standard plan, but nothing changed.

Anyone here can help me? This is a critical thing for us to start using Jira

Thanks

Chris Buzon

There are potentially a lot of ways, you can use Jira-Automation within your project automatically set the due date of the children tasks (*tickets contained inside an epic) based on the values set in the epic.

It's important to understand that Tasks and Sub-Tasks are entirely different concepts in Jira. Sub-tasks are a TYPE of issue (a sub-task type, so they're always tied to a 'parent' ticket), while tasks are a Standard Type.
They have different requirements and constraints, and thought this may sound arbitrary, it's really important and will affect how you would implement your solution.  Both could work here, they're just different.

If this makes no sense, you should spend a bit of time looking into Jira Automation, which might give you a better of idea of how you would/could do that.