If Task A duration changed, how task B/C automatic change by dependency

Question

Task A schedule 6/1-6/10

Task B will start from A finished, its schedule is 6/11-6/20

Task C will start from B finished, its schedule is 6/21-6/30

If Task A postponed 6/1-6/15

Task B could auto changed 6/15-6/25

Task C could auto change   6/26-7/5

How to make the "auto change" happen?

Bill Sheboy · Accepted Answer

Hi @Ryan.Zhou  -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Knowing the answers to some follow-up questions may help the community offer you ideas:

* What version of Jira Cloud are you using?
* How are you representing Task start/finish dates?  (e.g. with Start Date and Due Date fields?)  
* How are you representing dependency between Tasks?  (e.g. with issue links)

If we assume you are on Jira Cloud, Standard license, use Start Date and Due Date, and issue links: there isn't anything built-in to automatically update based upon issue dependencies.  Jira isn't like a project management tool specifically built to do that.

There are marketplace addons and more advanced Jira licenses which provide more project management features like what you ask.

As a work-around, you could use automation rules to detect date/status changes in the linked issues and update them accordingly.

Best regards,

Bill