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

    The related links and lists on the Story form in Agile Development 2.0 provide essential actions for managing your stories. These functionalities enable you to efficiently add scrum tasks, manage dependencies, and modify stories as needed.

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    Key Features

    • Split Story: Divides a story into two, transferring incomplete tasks to the new story. The original story cannot be in a Cancelled or Completed state.
    • Add Scrum Tasks: Facilitates the creation of multiple scrum tasks linked to the current story, which are displayed in the Scrum Tasks related list.
    • Convert into Epic: Transforms an active story into an epic, moving the original story to a Cancelled state. This is beneficial for large stories that need further breakdown.
    • Copy Story: Duplicates the details of an existing active story into a new story, including tests and tasks. The new story is set to Draft state.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the related links and lists, ServiceNow customers can enhance their Agile workflow, ensuring better organization and tracking of stories, tasks, and dependencies. This streamlining is vital for maintaining project momentum and clarity in Agile Development 2.0.

    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.