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When Creating a Hierarchy in Jira. Does Initiative Come First and Then Theme, Epic, Story or does Theme come First then Initiative, Epic, Story?
I am getting Different Reponses when Googling this. What is Best Practice?
Thanks
Welcome to the community. As per other's responses, it is completely up to you. You don't even have to use Initiative or Theme, you can name them to whatever it works for your organization.
Best, Joseph Chung Yin
Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Infrastructure Applications Team
Viasat Inc.
Welcome to the Atlassian Community!
Technically, it's really up to you how you choose to implement your hierarchy
So, historically, Jira Software has implemented only three layers - Epic -> Issue -> Sub-task, and you can have many differently named issue types, and sub-tasks. That obviously translates into Epic -> Story -> Sub-task in the names you are using.
Advanced Roadmaps gives you more flexibility - layers up above Epic. The default is
Initiative -> Theme -> Epic -> Story -> sub-task
But that's not fixed in stone, and the names are totally renamable. Even their own docs do it differently (Odyddey -> Initiative -> Epic -> Story -> Sub-task). I've seen initiative and theme reversed in that scheme in places, but what I see most often is something like
Saga -> Epic -> Feature -> Story -> Sub-task (People rename Epic to feature and then use Epic for the layer above)
The Epic -> Feature thing there is the (default) nomenclature for the Scaled Agile Framework, so we see it more often than other schemes.
TLDR: do what works best for you!
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Hello, @Tony Barthelemy ! Welcome to the Atlassian Community!
I've seen Theme at the top, and then Initiative, Epic, etc. But honestly, there's no standard above Epic especially since Epics traditionally aren't time boxed the way stories are.
Hope this helps
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