Coming soon! View subtasks directly on your backlog

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Daniel Sorg
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December 6, 2023

Hi @April Chi ,

is it planned in the future to remove the restriction that subtasks must always be in the same sprint as their main task?

We are working with several departments on a task and would like to reflect this via the subtasks in the future. However, the assigned persons will not always work on their subtask in the same sprint.

Thanks for your informations on the new subtask backlog feature.

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Krister Monsvik
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December 6, 2023

I agree with @Daniel Sorg , being able to set subtasks to different sprints would make them useful to us, along with being able to see the rolled up estimates and also their estimates showing up in the "workload by assignee" info: jiraworkload.png

Great work on the improvements!

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Josh Ananaba December 7, 2023

I agree 100% with this, @April 

 

Sometimes the subtasks under a story aren't mature enough to be involved in a certain sprint but the story is able to enter that sprint.

 

I believe, enabling subtasks in the timeline view is a huge step, but being more flexible with subtasks will make Jira unstoppable. 

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Josh Ananaba December 7, 2023

Hi @April Chi , following up as I've sent the email and no response yet. 

 

Looking forward to it! 

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Oleg P_ December 7, 2023

Hello.

I still don't see the "Enhance" option. I only have "Configure Board" & "Create board"
Do I need to enable it somewhere first?

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Daniel Khan December 8, 2023

Hmm...is this rolled out one after the other? As I still can't see it on our JIRA (being an Admin + company managed project). Thanks for feedback!

Anne Dang
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December 10, 2023

Great to hear this announcement. Thanks a lot for your information @April Chi . It is very helpful to us to manage the workload of the team members. However, I could not reach this feature on my Jira project (company-managed project). What should I do to enable this feature? Thanks a lot.

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Karine Houbrix
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December 11, 2023

Thank you for this feature, very helpful !! 
But I can't see this feature in your instance @April Chi  it's normal ?

Nacho Cortes
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December 11, 2023


Hi @April Chi I'm mailing you since I face the same situation as Patrik Korovsky, can't see the "sub-tasks" toggle.

Srinivaas December 21, 2023

New Addition effected the Backlog board as it includes the subtasks count when crosses 5K. Better Backlog board should has the sub tasks enable or disable like filter so that it will avoid the board to show the results.

Serge Creator January 13, 2024

This is a game changer, 100%. I'm even moving all my issue from Team project to a Company project because of that. 

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April Chi
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January 15, 2024

Hey @Daniel Sorg ,

Hope you're well and thanks for reaching out.

Is it planned in the future to remove the restriction that subtasks must always be in the same sprint as their main task?

We are working with several departments on a task and would like to reflect this via the subtasks in the future. However, the assigned persons will not always work on their subtask in the same sprint.

Unfortunately, there aren't any plans to address this yet. The reason for this is it's following scrum methodology where subtasks make up parent issues, hence should be in the same sprint. 

The current workaround would be to break your parent issues down into smaller pieces to reflect subtasks. 

However, I've heard this feedback a lot and would be happy to chat about if you're interested in explaining more: https://calendly.com/april-atlassian/jsw. If you prefer email, reach out to me at achi@atlassian.com. 

Hope this helps!

April Chi
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January 15, 2024

Hey @Josh Ananaba ,

Just noting that I've responded to your email, let me know if you have any other questions / concerns. 

Just to add to the email and this message, we don't have any plans to add subtasks to timeline yet, but here's the feature ticket if you'd like to vote for this feature: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-18677.

Hope that helps!

April Chi
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January 15, 2024

Hey @Oleg P_ , @Daniel Khan , @Anne Dang , @Karine Houbrix , 

Can you all see subtasks in your backlog now? FYI, it's only in Company-Managed Scrum projects. Let me know if you have any issues or feedback.

Regards,

April

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Nacho Cortes
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January 16, 2024

Everything is working fine thx! Is just that I missed that it only works for projects with more than 5000 issues.

April Chi
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January 16, 2024

Hey @Serge Creator , good to hear :) Let me know if you have any feedback.

Regards,

April

Daniel Khan January 18, 2024

@April Chi 
I can confirm. I dont see the toogle switch, but it is stating that we use now the enhanced version + I do see the sub taks items on the backlog. Thank you!

Ashleigh Koener
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January 22, 2024

Thank you so much for these changes! Very excited. As of right now, it seems we still do not have subtask visibility in our backlog (of a company-managed scrum project). I also don't see the Enhance my board and backlog option. Any suggestions on steps forward?



 

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January 23, 2024

Hi, 

I tried to add the view, but unfortunately, I cant see this option.

Any idea? 

Thanks,

Abbas Dar
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January 25, 2024

Hi Atlassian

How do we turn this feature off? It's totally misleading as a Product Manager, the sub-tasks define 'How' the team will deliver the work, this is visible in Sprint Backlog (Active Sprints) section of the project.

Showing the sub-tasks is fine, but including it as the count with the number of backlog items is super mis-leading and confusing.

As a Product Manager, I want to know how many PBIs/ User Stories are in the backlog, not the number of sub-taks (how) that underpins them.

 

Please let us all know how we can disable the sub-task count in the Product Backlog.

 

Thanks

Laurel Klafehn
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July 18, 2024

Hello! This is an exciting update. We have a company-managed project, but I don't see this option in our backlog yet. Does this also apply to be able to view child issues in the backlog? Thank you!

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