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How to set Epic ranking and have all Stories within the Epics rank by different teams

Janelle Lirette

Our Jira set up uses:

Defined Releases (timebound)

Epics set to a release to define the larger project

Stories within the Epic to parse out the work to various Component teams

Our challenge is that we want to designate a global ranking for Epics within a Release and then have all of their child stories be organized on all of the various teams' boards in the order of the Epic global ranking. Our biggest challenge is that teams are working on the same projects but in different order...we need all teams working on items in the same order (rank).

Any suggestions would be fabulous. I'm not a jire expert and inherrited managing our releases in Jira. I don't know how to direct our organization on how to work from a global ranking order that will trickle down to all teams' boards as they are planning Stories for specific sprints.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

By default, the standard rank field is a global field. If you're using it as intended, then the only thing you need to do here is educate your users that it is global so that they don't mess it up.

If a previous admin has added other ranking fields, you probably want to unpick that, going back to a single one.

Janelle Lirette

Thanks so much for responding however I'm unclear how to control the ranking so it is properly set.

I have a board for 'all issues' in our organization where I created sprints, start and stop sprints, and view reports at the release level. How would I set the ranking (assuming I use the default ranking field) to appear in order? I want to set the ranking at the Epic level and then have all Stories under those Epics fall in line with the Epic ranking?

Do I need to move the Epics around on a Board to arrange them in a certain order? If so, what prevents teams from moving those Epic's Stories around on their own Boards?

thanks,

janelle

Bill Sim_edrkib

This post is a tad old, but I'm similarly looking for a way of ordering task rank by the parent epic rank. So when I re-rank an Epic, all the tasks/stories in that epic also get re-ranked... Janelle/Nic, do you have ideas?

Bill Sim_edrkib

For those that find this of interest, in the end I created a script that using the REST API goes through the backlog and reorders the stories based on their Epic rank. We run the script just after the backlog epics have been checked and ordered. Then allow people to tactically re-rank issues as required. Thus we're only programmatically reordering the list once a fortnight roughly, but gives a good starting place for each issue rank.

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