Epics that are in progress counted in the WiP limit

[Radek Antoniuk]

On JIRA 7.2.8, we have a KanBan board and we have a WiP limit set.

After counting manually all the issues that are In Progress we discovered that JIRA includes the Epic's that are In Progress in the calculation, what doesn't really make sense as they are not displayed on the board per say and they are just containers grouping the "actual work chunks" which are User Stories or Tasks.

Is it possible to limit what issuetypes are counted against WiP limit?

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

In order for cards in that board to show an epic link, the epic issue itself has to be included in the board's filter.   In turn there is not a way to only selectively choose which issue types are counted against the work in progress.

What you could try would be to edit the Kanban Board's subfilter to hide Epics from appearing as issues in this board if you wanted.   To do that, you could edit the subfilter from the default value of

fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() OR fixVersion is EMPTY

into somthing like this:

(fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() OR fixVersion is EMPTY) AND type != epic

This way the epic does not appear on the board at all like an issue, but the other issues can still display that epic's name on their own cards.

Perhaps this might help instead.

[Radek Antoniuk]

Thanks for the write-up.

Indeed, I know this workaround with the filter, it might be useful though to raise an improvement for this. Also not sure how this filter workaround will apply from JIRA 7.4.x and Kanplan enabled.