Jira is a powerful platform, but the default epics, story, and subtask hierarchy can only take your team so far. As projects become more complex, work items become harder to track and even harder to explain to stakeholders.

That's where Hierarchy for Jira comes in.

The easiest way to build your perfect work item hierarchy

Hierarchy for Jira adds a customisable tree view to any Jira project. It lets you structure your work in the best way for your team by adding extra levels to your Jira hierarchy, wherever you need them.

Thanks to a newfound level of visibility into how your work items connect, you can identify dependencies across teams, projects, and boards, ensuring your projects never get derailed by surprise blockers.

You can roll up and sum up your columns like Story Points and time spent, and group by label, assignee, sprint—you name it. 

Then, you can share your hierarchy views using a shareable URL with key stakeholders, or embed it in Confluence for easy reporting.

The setup's quick, and it works straight out of the box.

How teams using Jira benefit from Hierarchy for Jira

Whether you're helping clients roll-out the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Jira, manage complex programmes, or need to keep your leadership team in the loop of an important project, Hierarchy for Jira gives you a clear structure on which to build.

You can:

• Add extra levels between Epics and Stories to match how your team actually works.
• Make reporting easier, even across multiple boards or projects.
• Visualise your work items in nested tree views that accurately reflect key project milestones, delivery phases, and blockers.
• Export your multi-level hierarchy or embed it in Confluence for reporting without the manual work. 

Thanks to its being built on Atlassian Forge, Hierarchy for Jira is powerful enough for even the largest project teams. It's also easy enough for teams to adopt without complicated and time-consuming training.

Who benefits from Hierarchy for Jira? 

Product Managers and Project Managers: you can track features across teams, surface blockers early, and show progress without chasing updates, making sure your roadmap and backlog always tell the same story!

Individual project team members: With a clear view of how your task fits into the bigger picture, it's easier to prioritise the work that matters. Hierarchy for Jira shows your entire chain of task dependencies that were previously hidden, so you won't start working on a task that's already stuck.

Project and delivery leads: Create and save custom hierarchy views to report on story points, time estimates, and completion rates across all levels of work. Hierarchy for Jira keeps everything in sync, so your updates are always accurate, and you spend less time building them!

What makes it a good fit for your team? 

• It works with Jira Cloud—no need to purchase Premium or Enterprise plans to enjoy the benefits of a custom work item hierarchy!
• Built on Atlassian's Forge platform, so you get security and performance, no matter how big your project and team are.
• Free for up to 10 users, and comes with a 30-day trial.

Hierarchy for Jira is the best way to improve your project visibility without changing how your team works.

What kind of results can you expect?

We recently sat down with Robert Nadon, Lead Atlassian Architect at Forty8Fifty Labs.

After trying Hierarchy for Jira, Robert is estimating a 20% efficiency boost for project managers and a 10% boost for developers.

What could your team do with all that extra bandwidth?

Interested in learning more about how Robert is using Hierarchy for Jira to craft custom hierarchies that match the complex requirements of teams using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Jira? Discover the full testimonial here or watch the video below.

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How Forty8Fifty Labs builds the perfect SAFe issue hierarchy with Hierarchy for Jira 

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Are you ready to learn more and see how Hierarchy for Jira could work for your team? We'd love to show you!

Schedule a chat with Upscale's friendly app experts today. We'll show you how it can work for your unique project needs, answer your questions, and share examples of how teams like yours are already using it to support their ambitious projects.

Or try it for yourself—start your free 30-day trial from the Atlassian Marketplace and see how it can instantly transform the way you structure your projects in Jira.

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