Is it possible to track epic work in roadmap associated with Sprint tasks?

Question

We use SCRUM and plan our work in 2-week sprints. In said sprint we plan Tasks that are "child" of a given Epic. Whenever we check the roadmap, Tasks as perfectly seen in the sprints they were planned. However, Epics show in the timeline since the first Task was added to a Sprint until the last Task was added to a Sprint, which doesn't allow us to track wich Epics were being developed in every Sprint.

For example, we have an Epic with Tasks in Sprint 1. The next included Task of that same Epic goes into Sprint 20. If we check the timeline for  that Epic in the Roadmap it says that we've been working in that Epic from Sprint 1 to Sprint 20. I would like to see only 2 time frames for that epic, Sprint 1 and Sprint 20 (not Sprint 1, 2, 3, 4.... 19, 20) which we are seeing now.

Mary from Planyway · Answer

Hi @Oscar Hernandez Esparza

As far as I know, it can only be like this in native Jira.
But you can try Planyway app that lets you visualize sprints with epics and tasks the way you prefer.

Planyway suggests a dedicated Epic timeline:

Alternatively, you may group your timeline by members, teams, and projects and view epics as well as other work types.

Oscar Hernandez Esparza · Answer

Hi @Matthias Gaiser _K15t_

We were thinking of doing exactly what you suggested at the end of your message. However this is not our ideal solution as we want to easily track all work done in the same feature. A possible solution we came up with is having an epic that relates to all other "pieces" of the same epic. Would you recommend a different approach?

Thank you very much for your help.

Matthias Gaiser _K15t_ · Answer

Hey @Oscar Hernandez Esparza

welcome to the Atlassian Community and thank you for sharing your challenge here.

As far as I know, there's no way to exclude the sprints in that view in which you did not actually work on the epic. And that's the case since the epic will automatically start from the sprint of the first work item to the end of the sprint of the last work item.
You can adjust the start date and due date of the epic and adapt with that when it's shown, but you can't make a break inbetween and then start it again.

I'd actually use this occasion and like to ask you why is there a big break in the middle? Would it maybe make more sense to finish first the epic you're working on without the big break? Or splitting it into maybe two epics?