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Epic
Story / Task
Sub-task
Once you created a Gantt chart, you’ll be able to group the tasks by the hierarchy levels mentioned above, assuming that you Jira projects support the next issue types: Epic, Story, Task, and Sub-Task, of course.
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For instance, let’s say, you want to add three additional hierarchy levels, Initiative, Program and Portfolio, above Epic. In such case, you might want to create a separate project in Jira. Then, create the corresponding issue types in Jira and update the screens of the project you’ve just created especially to add extra hierarchy levels to the Gantt chart.
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Please don’t forget to add the created project that has the required issue types to the chart configuration. |
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Thus, you’ll be able to create the next task grouping:
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In case you require to group the tasks by both, hierarchy and grouping levels, the hierarchy levels shall precede the grouping levels. |
For instance, you can create the next hierarchy/grouping:
Hierarchy: Program > Hierarchy: Initiative > Sprint > Epic Link
Note that hierarchy levels, Program and Initiative, precede the grouping levels, Sprint and Epic Link.
In this case, you can manually drag-and-drop the sprint groups to their initiative groups to achieve the desired task grouping.
Should you want to see only the architectural structure of your Gantt chart, without numerous tasks. you can filter the tasks on your chart by issue type:
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