Jira - Help to organize Issues

[Nuno Gomes]

Hello, 

I need to organize all the issues of my project. I have use Epics that represents my main features. But, beyond the epics I need to organize the issues in a more granular way that represents the functionalities of the system. 

How can I do this? (I already used components and labels to other things)

Another question, how can I change a Epic link from a closed issue from a closed sprint? I need to Re-open the issue? Does this have impacts on the jira reports?

Many Thanks,

Best Regards,

Nuno Gomes

[Thomas B]

Hello @Nuno Gomes - I can give you insight into how my team operates Jira but in the end, configuration is changed per company to best fit the teams needs. I think you may need to better identify your project and epics based on your current organization. Here is some insight into how we operate:

Organization

• Projects - We base projects on our clients and systems
  
  • Client's get their own Projects - These are the development efforts that go into development specific to that client
    • Client will usually get an MVP epic
    • Client will get an Epic for each 'effort'
  • Systems get their own Projects - These are built out systems that support many clients, but have bugs or enhancements
    • Systems will get an epic for each specific enhancement that is a large chunk of work (over 8+ hours). Otherwise we wrap smaller efforts into an ongoing Epic.
• Project Categories - We link every project to a category of business efforts vs technical efforts
  • This is useful for filtering within the backlog and tracking business initiatives vs development initiatives
• Epics - We create Epics for each set of work related to any specific project. When we start an 'effort', we are actually started a chunk of work that is defined by the stories / tasks / sub-tasks within an Epic, within a Project.
  
  • This is useful for showing deliverables. We conclude the work for a specific effort is complete when the Epic is complete. We cannot complete an Epic until the user stories within are complete. 

Question

To answer your question regarding "Another question, how can I change a Epic link from a closed issue from a closed sprint? I need to Re-open the issue? Does this have impacts on the jira reports?"

1. Go to your search query
2. Find the issue that needs the Epic Link changes
3. Open that issue
4. Change the Epic Link to whatever you want

Depending on which reports you are running, the change may show up. If you are running a report by LastUpdated or EpicLink, that yes these changes would be reflected.

Thanks

~Thomas