Timeline for In Jira Kanban, do we use sub-tasks?
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 18:04 | vote | accept | Chris Brettini | ||
| Jan 3, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | Yes, you are right. pm.stackexchange.com/questions/27876/… | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | Barnaby Golden | It would be worth asking that as a question. StackExchange comments aren't really intended to be the place to ask and answer questions. | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | Do we ever use sub-tasks for decomposition of a big task in Kanban? Task - add a new search function to a website. Let's suppose this is a big task. Sub-task1 - Research the current architecture, Sub-task2 - Implement the search function, Sub-task3 - write unit tests, Sub-task4 - update the documentation, Sub-task5 - update the UI. It is easier to track progress of small work items than big ones. | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 11:46 | comment | added | Barnaby Golden | One example of where I've seen sub-tasks used is with meetings. For example, there is a task to add a new search function to a website, but the team wants to get together to discuss the technical approach. You wouldn't necessarily want to add a new task to cover this design meeting, but adding a sub-task can be a good approach. At this stage the sub-tasks are acting more as a checklist or memory prompt for the teams. | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 10:55 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | Thanks! Let's consider the case when a sub-task isn't a stage of a workflow. What's the use of these sub-tasks? Could you provide an example when it's useful to create sub-tasks? Do they just help a manager to control the progress of a bigger task? Or do they help a manager to optimise a workflow? | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 10:29 | history | answered | Barnaby Golden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |