Sprint Breakdown for Epic Board

[Jimmy Kim]

If I have an Epic with a bunch of linked Epics, Stories, and Tasks, is there a way for me to view the Epic in a sprint breakdown view instead of just looking at an Epic with all of the linked issues? I am trying to see which of the linked issues are attributed to individual sprints.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Jimmy Kim 

First can we get some clarification on what you mean by "linked"?

1. Epics can have "child" issues that are from the standard issue types level, i.e. Story, Bug, Task, etc. 

2. Epics can also have issues of any type linked to them using the generic issue linking functionality.

Are you talking about wanting to view both of those sets of issue for a single Epic displayed in a Scrum board (to be able to see the sprints to which individual issues are assigned)?

Is this for a Team Managed project or a Company Managed project?

Do you have any third party apps that extend the filtering capabilities of Jira, like Scriptrunner or JQL Tricks?

[Jimmy Kim]

The view I'm trying to get is if I have a bunch of linked tasks/stories to one epic, I'd like to see the sprints that they're all associated to in one view versus all of the linked tasks/stories to the epics. We operate by sprints and I'd like to see which tasks are going into which sprint for all linked issues to an Epic.

[Trudy Claspill]

I'm still not clear if by "linked" you mean issues that are children on an Epic or issues that are generically linked to an Epic. Can you provide a screen image similar to the one I provided and indicate which issues in it you want in your output?

Also, are these issues in a Team Managed project or a Company Managed project? You can find that information in the Type column on the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

If you are trying to get a view of all the child issues of a single Epic you can create a filter like this:

Parent = <issue key for that Epic>

That will give you a list of the issues that are children of the specified Epic.

If you want to see these issues in a Scrum board view where you can see the current and future sprints to which they are assigned, then you can save that filter and then create a new Scrum board based on that filter.

[Jimmy Kim]

The view I'd like to see is a sprint level view in a Kanban board where all of the tasks that are tagged with a sprint for a specific Epic are shown. The designated sprints would be the columns in a Kanban board and all of the tasks under the requested Epic would appear in those columns.

[Trudy Claspill]

The columns of a board display issues based on their Status. You can't base the display of the issues in board columns on their assigned Sprint values.

You could add the Sprint field to the Card Layout to show the Sprint values on the cards.

[Jimmy Kim]

That's an interesting idea. Could you let me know how to get the card view for all of the tasks in one Epic?

[Trudy Claspill]

From my second response:

If you are trying to get a view of all the child issues of a single Epic you can create a filter like this:

Parent = <issue key for that Epic>

That will give you a list of the issues that are children of the specified Epic.

If you want to see these issues in a Scrum board view where you can see the current and future sprints to which they are assigned, then you can save that filter and then create a new Scrum board based on that filter.

You can find information about creating, saving, and sharing filters here:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/search-for-issues-in-jira/

To create a new board:

1. Click Search () > View all boards.

2. Click Create board.

3. Select a board type (either scrum, or kanban).

4. The next step in the wizard will ask you what you want to use as the basis for your new board. Here you would specify "Existing Saved Filter".

5. The next step in the wizard will include an option for you to select the filter.

6. Complete the rest of the required fields and steps for the wizard.