Best Practices for Tracking Priorities

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Hi,

I'm working on putting together a board to track the priority of initiatives across the company. The team that will be setting and reviewing this prioritization on a regular basis wants to be able to see them laid out by team. I can do this by creating an Epic per team, however it leaves an issue that I haven't been able to solve. There are a number of initiatives that require multiple teams to work on them.

For example, initiative A might be priority #1 for Team X, and priority #3 for Team Y. I need to be able to show each team's priority list within a single board, but other than creating multiple cards for a single initiative, which is just going to make the board cluttered and confusing, I haven't come up with another way of displaying this.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Zach

Carlos Garcia Navarro

Hi Zach,

This is an interesting problem to solve.  It seems like you need a way to create an additional level of hierarchy in JIRA. This article may help:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/jira-software-evaluator-resources/jira-software-hierarchy

Another simple way you could use is: you can create a dedicated project for initiatives where each initiative corresponds to the whole effort company-wide. The issue type could be 'initiative' e.g. (you need to create it). Then each team creates epics with their part of the work and links the epics to the corresponding 'initiative' in the project you created for initiatives.  Then you can create a filter that shows all the epics linked to initiatives(and grouped by initiative).

Hope it helps,

Carlos