Jira Advanced Hierarchy Levels.

[Shachar Ovadia]

Hi,

We need to have the ability to create a story, bug and task under a Feature., but also under an epic.

Hierarchy :

Feature

  - Epic 

      - Story

Feature

  - Story

I did not find any way of doing so. 

Is this even possible ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You can do this, yes, because you've said you are on Jira Software premium.

Jira is an issue tracker, so the most important object in it is simply "the issue".

The core of Jira gives us base-level issues (which can have sub-tasks, as fragments of them.  Sub-tasks are issue-like objects, but are always treated as a part of their parent).

Jira Software repurposes one issue type, the Epic, as a container for other issues - you can add base-level issues to them (such as Story, but Jira doesn't care what they are called).  One thing that confuses people sometimes is that an Epic because it is still an issue object, can have sub-tasks, which are not the same thing as the issues it contains!

With premium, you get access to Advanced Roadmaps.  This lets you nominate more issue types to be the same level as Epics, and nominate more to be layered above Epics.  You can also rename Epics if you need to.

What you can not do (because it makes no sense) is have an item belonging to more than one issue at the layer above.

What I would do, if I were in your place, would be to create another issue type called "Dave" (because everyone knows someone called Dave), go into the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, and nominate Dave to be the layer above Epic.  Then I would rename the Epic issue type as "Feature" and then rename "Dave" to "Epic".  So you have (a SAFe recommended hierarchy) of

• Epic
  • Feature
    • Story
      • Sub-task

(with the oddity that Epics and Features can also have their own sub-tasks)

[Shachar Ovadia]

Unfortunately, This is not what we need.

We need to have the ability of creating stories both under epics, and under feature (without the epic link).

As far as i know, and as i understand it is not possible. thanks ! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, that makes no sense, so you can't do it.

[Chris Buzon]

This isn't possible - the hierarchy is very strict, so you can only have tickets belonging to the lower tier as children, and the higher tier are parents - no skipping a level.  You cannot nest issues within the same tier at all, they can only be linked together (using normal linking).

Sub-tasks *can* be created at any level, but they're just regular subtasks that follow sub-task logic.

[Chris Buzon]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-has a much better answer here, I would suggest someone un-accept my answer and instead take Nic's. 
It's not only more complete, I'd never considered changing the name of epics at all.

(Thank you Nic!)

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_]

Thanks for pointing it out, @Chris Buzon. Done!