Structuring Issue type as Epic > Feature (New Issue Type) > Stories > Sub Tasks

[Nair Muralidharan]

I would like to group the stories into suitable features and track the status at a feature level with the hierarchy of features higher than that of the stories. Is there any better way that can be achieved using the standard plan rather than the use of an advanced roadmap in Jira to change the hierarchy and view the progress at a feature level?

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Your best (?) option is to consider Premium tier of Jira which gives you more hierarchy with issues. In Standard your best option is to use Epic as a feature.

[Nair Muralidharan]

Thank you, Jack

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Nair Muralidharan

if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you might like JXL for Jira. It's a full-fledged table/spreadsheet view on your issues that allows defining any hierarchy of issues - either based on the build-in parent child relationships (task / sub-task, epic / story, Advanced Roadmaps levels), or based on issue links.

Here's how this looks for a 5-level hierarchy:

(It's worth noting that JXL can do way more than that - from inline-editing to quick filtering and sorting, it comes with all the features you're familiar with from Excel or Google Sheets. More info here: https://jxl.app. Disclaimer: I work on JXL :))

Hope this helps,

Hannes

[Nair Muralidharan]

Thank you, Hannes

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @Nair Muralidharan  

Welcome to the community !!

You can use issue links to create your own hierarchy above and below Epics or infact at any level.

If you would be interested in a paid app, to visualize the hierarchy based on the issue links, we have created an add-on to track the progress at each level,

Agile Tools - Epic Tree, Links Tree and Time in Status 

Key features of Links Hierarchy:

• Hierarchy upto 10 levels deep
• Progress % on "remaining estimate" or "original estimates"
• Edit Issue summary, time estimates, story points and assignee on the tree with real time updates in the progress
• Rolled up percentage completion at all levels
• Ability to add/remove the columns on the report

Disclaimer: I work for RVS, the vendor for this app, and I am one of the developers in the team

[Nair Muralidharan]

Thank you, Rahul