Can an epic belong to more than one initiative in Jira Advance Roadmaps.

[jeroen_wilmes]

Considering implementation of Jira Advanced Roadmaps the following use case is examined:

An Epic serves two different Initiatives. If we are going to bring the initiatives in Advanced roadmap is it then possible that both initiatives have the same Epic as Child?

[jeroen_wilmes · Accepted solution]

Now I'm getting a bit confused. So I try to explain myself better.

In standard Jira there is the hierarchy: Epic, Story, Task.  This also shows up as a hierarchy in the roadmap.

In standard Jira I can also link issues in different types, like Parent, child, blocker and a couple more.  Those relations show up in the issue, but have no effect on the roadmap. Although I define issue A as a child of issue B both are linked but in the roadmap A doesn't show up under B.

What will now the situation in Jira Advanced Roadmaps with Goals, Initiativess, and Epics?

Are that hierarchy levels also shown up in the roadmap? and how many hierachical levels do i get EXTRA with Advanced roadmaps?

In your answer it looks like i don't get an extra level but only the links, which in fact are pretty useless as they don't show up in roadmap as different level.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, there's a simple misunderstanding here.

Issue links are nothing to do with issue hierarchy.  It doesn't matter what you name any type of link, it's not a hierarchy thing, it's a named relationship between two issues.

Advanced Roadmaps allows you to create layers above Epics, and yes, they will show as hierarchy, not links.

[jeroen_wilmes]

Okay, thanks it is getting clear. 

Back to my original question, I assume now that: An issue can only belong to one issue of a higher hierarchy, but by creating links you can make a relation from one epic to more initiatives, (or any other issue), although it will only show up in the hierarchy of the initiative under which it has been created. That will work fine for me.

Remaining question is: How may layers can I create in Advanced Roadmaps on top of an Epic?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Correct, yes, an issue will only belong to one parent item (and then by extension an issue all the way up the hierarchy.  It's where the family analogy fails - you only have one parent, one grandparent, one great-grandparent etc, although each layer can have many children)

You can indeed use links to show more relationships, it is what they are for.  But it's not hierarchy.

(There is a huge exception to this - a couple of apps do more layers by using issue links.  That can work, but you have to really careful not to make inappropriate links, and they also tend to enforce one parent only)

[jeroen_wilmes]

thanks it is clear.

[Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @jeroen_wilmes 

No, this is done using the parent link where it can have only one parent issue. So a simple solution would be to breakdown that epic into two.

I hope it helps.

Ravi