Is it possible to assign more than one assignee for a ticket(EPIC/Story/Task/Bug)

[SivaKumaran]

Is it possible to assign more than one assignee for a ticket(EPIC/Story/Task/Bug)

Actually here my doubt is for a single ticket 3 developers are working. For that need to create 3 different tickets for same work

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hi @SivaKumaran ,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, the issue has only one assignee. I feel this is the right thing, because you want to know, who is responsible for the delivery (= assignee). Only one person, shared responsibility usually doesn't work.

You can handle this situation more ways, but I believe the most common one is to create (or let your team create) Sub-task for each developer (because they don't do exactly the same work on the issue).

Sub-tasks are not usable for Epics, Epics are large bodies of work that should be broken down into a number of smaller tasks, the usual hierarchy is:

• Epic -> Story -> Sub-task
• Epic -> Task -> Sub-task

etc.

I would recommend you to go through the Agile Couch, there are many useful information, how to handle different situations...

[SivaKumaran]

Hi @Hana Kučerová 
Thanks for the response
It helps

But we need to assign more than one assignee for a ticket

[Hana Kučerová]

There are a lot of questions/answers/discussions about this topic here on the community. More workarounds are possible, so maybe one of them will help you. Please go through them:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-assign-a-issues-to-two-assignee/qaq-p/132978
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-assign-an-issue-to-multiple-assignees/qaq-p/895969
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Best-way-to-add-an-issue-to-several-assignees-is-cloning-issues/qaq-p/376270
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Can-I-assign-an-issue-to-more-than-one-assignee/qaq-p/902403
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-assign-a-task-to-multiple-users/qaq-p/1199130
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-Assign-same-Issue-to-multiple-user-using-JiraCli/qaq-p/268238
• ...

Even though some of them are older, the situation is basically still the same...

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

"we need to assign more than one assignee for a ticket"

No, you do not.  That statement is wrong.  

By all means, add something that says "other people to talk to about this issue" - a group picker, a multi-user field, even a label.  But you should only ever have a single human assignee.