Anyone? :/

I am also confused how to use epics. For example, if I add epic to a sprint, why are user stories not added? They should inherit release from epic. I also wonder what to do when epic stretches over multiple sprints. Maybe it should not be possible to add epic to sprint at all?

I’d also like to get clarification for this question. Any ideas on this?

Hi,
these are really good questions and I think there is certainly potential to improve the backlogs feature.

1.) It’s not possible to add an epic to multiple sprints / versions at the same time. Instead, it may be a better idea to add epics to a separate master backlog or to a release version and just assign user stories to sprints. The user stories can be assigned as children to the respective epics. Thereby, it is possible to get a quick overview in which sprint the user stories belonging to an epic have been completed. Especially, if you have multiple development teams (with their own projects) working on epics you may even consider having a separate (parent) project where you have all the epics in the backlog (and therefore a high-level overview over the development). You can then have the user stories for the epics in the respective development team projects where they can be worked on separately from the epics (while still having the overview over the state of the user stories via the epics in the master project).

2.) Stories which have not been finished in the current sprint can be moved over (drag & drop in backlogs) to the new sprint.

@Robin Thanks for your answer. I followed your advice in 1).

Now I have the following structure:

 Parent project

 |
 +--> Child project

and

 Epic in Parent project

 |
 +--> UserStory in Child project

Now the timeline view of the parent project shows the Epic.
The timeline view of the child project shows the UserStory (and its respective Tasks).

Can you tell me how to create a timeline view which shows both the Epic and the subordinated UserStories at the same time?
Thanks a lot! :)