Creating a story in Jira

In Jira, we can use epics as containers for the small individual pieces of functionality that are captured as stories. Our epic will refer to these smaller stories as its children.

Let’s create child stories directly from the epic.

Getting ready

Similar to the previous recipe, we require Jira to be installed and configured so that the following conditions can be met:

• There is at least one Jira project available to contain the story and it is connected to the epic.
• The person creating the story has the appropriate permissions to create the epic and story in the target project. This same person should be a member of the Jira project or a Jira admin.

When both conditions are met, it becomes easy to create the epic and any child stories.

How to do it…

You can create a child story that links to the epic at two locations:

• On the page for the epic
• On the Timeline view

Let’s look at creating...