Preventing stories from moving to next column until dependent tickets are done

Question

Hello all,

I have a question I'm curious about.
My team has a lot of stories that are depend on others within the sprint to be completed first or tested together.

Is there a way, I can have these stories blocked from moving into the next column, until the dependent jira issue(s) are done?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

@james gaulden

What can be done depends on how you are representing dependencies between issues.

As I said, natively there is not functionality to support this, but a third party app might help.

Would you consider paying for a third party app to achieve this requirement?

james gaulden_tnvmoh · Answer

unfortunately, my area will not allow sub-task, bc that would elevated this. I do not think there is a way to perform this off just the columns itself in a sprint board

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

There is a built-in function for this if your dependencies are all represented as sub-tasks.  But that's often not the case (and often not the right way to represent dependencies)