Can be Tasks child of Story - Hirearchy setup Epic-Story-Task ?

[Marjan Tusek]

Hi all,

In some other tool, used in previous company, I had chance to use hirearchy Epic-Story-Task-Subtask. 

In Jira I can see only relation Epic-Story-Subtask. I would like to use Task as child of Story. This should allow me also view of relations / grouping in the roadmap.

Any advice?

Thank you very much in advance.

Br Marjan

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hello @Marjan Tusek 

Isn't possible as a task have the same level of a story in Jira.

In Jira (agile) a task is often use as a technical or engineering issue (Upgrade the database...).

[Marjan Tusek]

Thank you very much for info.

I will change the process of tracking issues. :-)

Best regards,

Marjan

[DSpink]

response is missing the point. Adding a child to a story should create a task not a subtask!!! 

[Hanna Boychenko]

Agree at 100%! 

[Anonymous]

A "Story" is the "Task" to implement something...remember, JIRA was initially design for Software Development and around Agile best practices...further convoluting this hierarchy will only make things more complex and more difficult to track.

You can create custom "Sub-task" issue types which you can call whatever you want...but the motivation to decompose your work into manageable Sorties is why this restriction is in place...

I think the restriction here which is by design is for good measure. Without these boundaries, most folks could potentially "configure" themselves into a corner full of overengineered workflows and difficult reporting.

Motivate yourselves to always keep things simple...

I am a Technical Program Manager and at times, every bone in my body wants to have the freedom to link various issue types as I see fit but overall, I do appreciate the restrictive nature of the setup...

[John Franey]

Keep it simple is a positive mantra.

We have a different workflow for Story/Bug than we do for Tasks.  A Story/Bug tracks progress over sprints.

Sub-tasks are not suited because they cannot link to children.  The assignee cannot break it down into further sub-tasks.

We can 'link' Tasks to the Story, but then team members observe this not as convenient or as binding as children of the story (i.e. subtasks).

In anycase, the Jira doc says inserting Tasks under Stories is supported.

"This means that the parent and child relationship isn’t limited to specific issue types. Rather, any issue type can be both a parent and a child issue — the only exception being subtasks, which can only be a child since there aren’t any issue types below it in the hierarchy."

From: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/what-are-issue-types/