Multiple assignees for an issue

[Rukmani]

For cross functional tasks, we need to add 2/3 assignees to a Software project on JIRA. The issues in which they are Primary/Secondary assignees should be displayed when I click on their user icon in the Kanban board. 

Is this possible?

[Nataliya Vasyliv_Reliex_]

Hi @Rukmani 

In case when you need a task for multiple assignees (and sub-tasks doesn't fit you) you can use ActivityTimeline add-on. You will be able to assign a single issue to several assignees and get an additional flexibility for resource planning.

How to set up multiple assignee is in our blog.

[orrin.ward]

If we genuinely have multiple assignees, we tend to use sub-tasks for them.

To generally track who has contributed to something, based on historical Assignee activity, we created a multi-user field called Contributors, and used Automation for Jira to automatically add a user to the Contributors field whenever an Assignee is set. We tend to change Assignee on an issue when something is being reviewed (reviewer = Assignee at that stage) and when something is being tested by a QA/engineer (tester = Assignee at the QA status).

At the end of the issue's lifespan we can see who was actively involved from the contributors field.

[Joe Pitt]

The short answer is no.  JIRA only allows one assignee. One workaround is to create a user picker for the additional users. In my experience if more than one person needs to work on an issue it can be divided into subtasks assigned to them works well. That way if they look for tasks assigned to them it shows up. 

[Jack Brickey]

And then you can use quick filters for secondary and tertiary assignees but that isn’t very scalable.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

A group-picker can also be useful to indicate other people to talk to.

But multiple assignees does not work in real life.  You will always have "I thought someone else was doing it" and makes it impossible to track progress or work.

[Hyndavi]

i think we can get a work around on this,  with assign secondary user option in Jira, then create a filter to show secondary user