Group epic items by teams

[Guy Nimni]

I have an epic for a specific product development milestone.
I want to "group" the Frontend child items under a parent other than that epic.
So it will be like this:

Epic:

• Frontend:
  • item1
  • item2
  • item3
• Backend
  • ...

The problem is that I need the frontend items to be independent in a way that I can set sprint to each one and they will no inherit it from their parent.

From what I saw, the items that can have their own sprint are technical-tasks for example but they can only by children of epics but epics can't be under epics so I'm in a jam.

Any ideas how can I structure my project?

[Nicholas Ellis _ALM Works_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Guy,

I realize you didn't mention Structure for Jira, but naturally it is good for structuring a hierarchy like this.  The pun is unavoidable.

Let me restate the problem to make sure I understand what you are saying.  We have epics and under those epics we have some issues.  We want to create a grouping in between the issues already grouped under the epic, by one of their features.  I'll assume that it is the sprint field.

Also it is worth mentioning each issue is assigned its own sprint.  This means the epic and the child issues can be in completely different sprints, or one in sprints without the other.

In order to this in Structure for Jira Cloud you can follow the following steps:

1. Open a new empty structure
2. Click the + button next to the big Automation button
3. Go to  Presets > Agile Hierarchy...
4. Then choose whether to grab items from a project or board
   Now we have the items under the epics (possibly including subtasks)
5. Click the + again and add Group > Field...
   Here I chose Sprint, and level 2 (Epics are level 1 and child items level 2)

However it is worth mentioning you could group on almost any field, and even multiple fields if you needed.

I hope that answers your question.

Cheers,

Nick

[ALM Works]