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 and perform key actions on your stories. These tools help you handle tasks like adding scrum tasks, managing dependencies, splitting stories, and converting stories into epics, all within the ServiceNow platform.

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    Related Links for Stories

    • Split Story: Allows splitting a story into two by creating a new story with the same details. Incomplete tasks are moved to the new story. This is useful when a story needs to be divided for better management. Note that the story cannot be in the Cancelled or Completed state, and the Original task field must not reference non-story records.
    • Add Scrum Tasks: Enables the creation of multiple scrum tasks linked to the current story. These tasks appear in the Scrum Tasks related list, facilitating task breakdown and assignment.
    • Convert into Epic: Converts an active story into an epic, automatically cancelling the original story. This is helpful when a story is too large and needs to be broken into multiple stories. If the story is already linked to an epic, the new epic becomes a child epic. The new epic starts in Draft state.
    • Copy Story: Creates a new story by copying details, tasks, and tests from an existing active story, setting the new story’s state to Draft. This option is unavailable for stories added from the triage board. Similar restrictions on story state and Original task field apply as with Split Story.

    Related Lists for Stories

    • Scrum Tasks: Displays all scrum tasks created for the story, with the option to add new tasks. This supports detailed task management within a story.
    • Prerequisite Stories: Lists stories that must be completed before the current story can be finished. You can edit to add prerequisites, helping manage story dependencies and workflow sequencing.
    • Dependent Stories: Shows stories that depend on the current story. Editing this list helps track downstream impacts and dependencies.
    • Tests: Allows adding existing tests to the story, which then appear in the Agile Board’s Sprint Tracking tab once the sprint starts. This links quality assurance activities directly with development work.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    These related links and lists empower Agile teams to efficiently organize, track, and modify stories throughout the development lifecycle. They streamline task creation, dependency management, and story structuring without leaving the story form, improving productivity and clarity. Customers can expect better control over story granularity, clearer dependency mapping, and integrated test management, which are critical for successful 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.