Related links and lists for a Story in Agile Development 2.0

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    Summary of Related links and lists for a Story in Agile Development 2.0

    In Agile Development 2.0, the Story form includes related links and related lists that enable you to efficiently manage your stories. These features help you perform key actions such as splitting stories, adding scrum tasks, managing dependencies, converting stories into epics, and copying stories. Understanding these tools is essential for organizing and tracking your agile work effectively.

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    Related Links

    • Split Story: Allows you to divide a story into two by creating a new story with the same details and moving any incomplete tasks to the new story. Restrictions apply on the story’s state and original task field.
    • Add Scrum Tasks: Enables creation of multiple scrum tasks linked to the story. These tasks appear in the Scrum Tasks related list.
    • Convert into Epic: Converts an active story into an epic, cancels the original story, and associates the new epic accordingly. This helps break down large stories into manageable epics and child stories, with the new epic state set to Draft.
    • Copy Story: Creates a new draft story by copying details, tests, and tasks from an existing active story. This option is unavailable for stories from the triage board and has state restrictions similar to Split Story.

    Related Lists

    • Scrum Tasks: Displays all scrum tasks for the story and allows creation of new tasks directly from the list.
    • Prerequisite Stories: Lists stories that must be completed before this story can be completed, supporting dependency management.
    • Dependent Stories: Shows stories that rely on the current story, helping track downstream impacts.
    • Tests: Allows adding existing tests related to the story, which are then visible on the Sprint Tracking tab during the sprint.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    Utilizing these related links and lists on the Story form in Agile Development 2.0 helps streamline story management, improve task tracking, and maintain clear dependency relationships. This facilitates better sprint planning, progress visibility, and agile delivery.

    Use the related links and related lists on the Story form for the actions that you need to perform on your story in Agile Development 2.0, such as adding scrum tasks, dependencies, or splitting the story.

    Table 1. Related links of a story
    Name Description
    Split Story Splits the story into two stories by creating a new story with the same details. Any incomplete tasks from the old story are moved to this new story.
    Note:
    State of the Story cannot be Cancelled or Completed, and the Original task field, if present, cannot contain a non-story record such as a Catalog Task or Defect.
    Add Scrum Tasks Enables you to create multiple scrum tasks for the current story.

    The scrum tasks are listed in the Scrum Tasks related list of the story.

    For more information, see Create multiple scrum tasks for stories in Agile Development 2.0.
    Convert into epic Converts an active story into an epic and moves the story into the Cancelled state.

    If the story that you created is too large, you can convert it into an epic and then break it down into multiple stories.

    • If this story is already associated with an epic, then the story is turned into a child epic for this epic.

      For example, STRY01 is converted to EPIC01. If STRY01 was associated with EPIC02, then EPIC01 becomes a child epic to EPIC02. Otherwise, EPIC01 is created as a standalone epic.

    • The state of the newly created epic is automatically set to Draft.
    • The canceled story is associated with the newly created epic.
    Copy Story Copies the details of an existing active story to a new story. The tests and tasks of the story are also copied.

    The state of the newly created story is automatically set to Draft.

    This action is not available for stories added from the triage board.

    Note:
    State of the Story cannot be Cancelled or Completed, and the Original task field, if present, cannot contain a non-story record such as a Catalog Task or Defect.
    Table 2. Related lists of a story
    Name Description
    Scrum Tasks Lists the scrum tasks created for the story. Click New to create a scrum task.

    For more information, see Create a scrum task for Agile Development 2.0 stories.
    Prerequisite Stories Lists the stories that must be completed before the current story can be completed. Click Edit to add prerequisite stories.
    Dependent Stories Lists the stories that depend on the current story. Click Edit to add dependent stories.
    Tests Adds existing tests to the story.

    These tests are also listed on the Sprint Tracking tab of Agile Board after the sprint of this story starts.