How to view progress of epics by release version

Question

Currently, Jira only seems to allow progress of Epics to be viewed as a whole even if some epics span across multiple release versions.

My team would like to view the progress of Epics for one release version separate from another so we know how much work is left to do on specific Epics for the version to be released next.

We would also like to make use of this feature to track progress in Jira Product Discovery, which also doesn't seem doable at the moment.

Is there a way to filter the Epics by version on Jira Software and Jira Product Discovery? If not, is there an alternative way of labelling/ tagging Jira issues so my team can achieve the expected outcome, as described above, for progress tracking?

Amay Purohit_RVS · Answer

Hi @Cynthia Cheng

Welcome to the community !!

If you would like to try out a mktplace app for your requirement, please take a look at an app we have developed for the same use case

Issue Hierarchy

Through this app you can view all the Epicsfor a release version in a tree structure. And the app rolls up the time spent / story points progress at each parent level. You can add it as a dashboard gadget and export the data to a csv too.

Disclaimer : I am part of the team which developed this app

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Cynthia Cheng

welcome to the community!

If I understand you correctly and assuming you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

With these, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

This is really just one of a virtually infinite number of possible views; e.g., you could also group by any other issue field(s), show your progress sum-ups weighted by story points/estimates, etc. etc.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Cynthia Cheng

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

You appear to be looking at the Timeline feature, from the navigation panel on the left, for a specific board.

That view does include the ability to filter by Version, which are Release Versions specified in the Fix Versions field. However, it does not change the progress bar for the Epic when you apply that filtering. The progress bar for the epic still shows the information for all child issues in the Epic.

You could go to the Releases section and selection the specific Release Version of interest to see the work for that one Release. on that page you can filter the content of the Release based on Epic to see the status of the child issues of that Epic that are within the selected Release.

I don't work with Product Discovery, so I can't address your question concerning that.