We are using JIRA Cloud. I want to be able to create EPICS, Features, and Stories.

Don Shadwell November 9, 2023

We are using JIRA Cloud. I want to be able to create EPICS, Features, and Stories. 

1.  Can this be done with JIRA Cloud

2.  If so how do you do it- Please provide steps

3.  If no, what JIRA product would allow for this

3.  Need to track if the project is ahead of schedule, on schedule, or behind schedule

3 answers

1 accepted

2 votes
Answer accepted
Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
November 9, 2023

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You will need to be on a Premium subscription to do this natively. 

Jira only has two layers at the core - the story level and sub-tasks.  Jira Software adds Epics above story.

Premium has "Advanced Roadmaps" that enable you to create more layers above Epic.  So if you have that, you can:

  • Rename the Jira Software Epic to Feature
  • Add Epic as a new issue type above Feature

You could also look for apps that can do this.  The ones that spring to mind are Hierarchy for Jira (of course I'm going to plug that, I work for Adaptavist), and Structure, but it is probably worth a look through the marketplace for others.

Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_
Community Leader
Community Leader
Community Leaders are connectors, ambassadors, and mentors. On the online community, they serve as thought leaders, product experts, and moderators.
November 9, 2023

Don Shadwell November 9, 2023

Fantastic! Thank you for responding.  I will take a look.

Like Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ likes this
0 votes
Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
Atlassian Partner
November 10, 2023

Hi @Don Shadwell

just to offer another Marketplace recommendation, this would also be easy to do using the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies. These issue hierarchies can be based on Jira's built-in parent/child relationships (like epic/story, or story/sub-task, or anything you configured in Advanced Roadmaps), and/or based on issue links. With this, you can model virtually any structure of issues, e.g. like so:

5-level-hierarchy.gif

You can have as many issue hierarchy definitions as you want, and also combine issue hierarchies with JXL's other advanced features, such as issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

0 votes
Deleted user November 9, 2023

Hi Don, 

Are your project types company managed or team-managed? The first things is to create a project in Jira Software. 

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/create-edit-and-delete-team-managed-projects/ 

If you are in team managed you'll have ability to configure issue types that consist of epics, stories, tasks, etc. You can also create new issue type for example: features (as you mentioned). 

Here is a good link of how you can create these issue types in a team-managed project: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/set-up-issue-types-in-team-managed-projects/ 

Here is another good link of understanding how you can create hierarchy and lovely visuals with epics, stories and tasks: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/tutorials/epics

If you enable the timeline on your projects to help you manage a "schedule" as such in weeks,months etc.


Don Shadwell November 9, 2023

Thank you.  I will take a look at the links you posted.  Very much appreciated.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
November 9, 2023

wttc @[deleted] 

I'm afraid this is broadly incorrect as an answer to the question.  The flaws are:

The first step in creating a hierarchy is to, well, create the hierarchy.  Not creating a project.  When you create (or update) a project, it will start using the hierarchy you have defined.

In both team and company managed projects, yes, you have Epics (by default for most Software project templates), but adding "feature" just adds another issue type at the level of story.  It does not give you any hierarchy.

Like Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ likes this
Deleted user November 9, 2023

Yes totally! I understand that regarding hierarchy, however, I didn't read Don's question like that! I read it more to be "how do I create these in Jira cloud". 

If indeed the intention is for hierarchy, then I'd be wrong.

Suggest an answer

Log in or Sign up to answer
DEPLOYMENT TYPE
CLOUD
PRODUCT PLAN
STANDARD
PERMISSIONS LEVEL
Product Admin
TAGS
AUG Leaders

Atlassian Community Events