Merging user stories

Question

During product backlog grooming we often encounter stories that are quite small and could be easily combined with other stories. How does one go about merging user stories in Jira? It doesn't look to me like there is a special functionality for it (link type, history). Any good practices?

Also, correspondingly, how do you best split user stories into smaller ones, preserving traceability?

hcornett · Answer

Why is this an app? Seems like this functionality should be part of the core product.

Marlene Kegel -codefortynine- · Answer

We released a Jira cloud app called Merge Agent for Jira that could solve your problem.

With our app you can easily merge the description, comments and other content of two tickets or several tickets with just a few clicks.

Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any feedback on Merge Agent for Jira.

MKS · Answer

Creating a new issue link type is a good idea for starters. Thank you for that!

I'd like to accept your answer but I can't cause it's here as a comment to mine answer (which should have been a comment, ouch :) ). Do you want to re-post it as an answer?