Delivery tab hierarchy does not capture status

Question

On Jira Product Discovery, and the IIDEA work item type, there is a Delivery tab. This Delivery tab reflects the Delivery Status field.

Unfortunately, it only functions if you link the low level work items directly (task, story, bug) or 1 level in the hierarchy up (epic). The expected behaviour is that it should cascade down from Initiative (2 layers in the hierarachy) enabling an accurate delivery picture.

Walter Buggenhout · Accepted Answer

Hi @Sean Kenna and welcome to the Community!

I think you may be right that it would make a lot of sense if it would become possible to link higher level work items to ideas. But right now, rolling up estimates across multiple levels the hierarchy is not expected behaviour. Fromthis support article on the topic of delivery progress;

Maybe someone from the JPD team can share any future plans on the topic, but at this point a workaround would be to link not one, but all the epics that you define to implement the idea, rather than the arching initiative.

Hope this helps!