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 facilitate managing and performing key actions on stories. These tools enable you to efficiently handle tasks such as adding scrum tasks, managing dependencies, splitting stories, and converting stories into epics.

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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. Incomplete tasks are moved to the new story. This action is restricted if the story state is Cancelled or Completed, or if the Original task field contains a non-story record.
    • Add Scrum Tasks: Enables creation of multiple scrum tasks linked to the current 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 creates the epic in Draft state. If the story is already linked to an epic, the new epic becomes a child epic; otherwise, it is a standalone epic.
    • Copy Story: Copies an active story’s details, tasks, and tests into a new story set to Draft state. This option is unavailable for stories added from the triage board and cannot be used if the story state is Cancelled or Completed or if the Original task field contains a non-story record.

    Related Lists

    • Scrum Tasks: Displays all scrum tasks created for the story. New scrum tasks can be added directly here.
    • Prerequisite Stories: Lists stories that must be completed before the current story can be finished. You can edit this list to add prerequisites.
    • Dependent Stories: Shows stories dependent on the current story. Editable to add dependencies.
    • Tests: Adds existing tests to the story, which will be visible in the Sprint Tracking tab on the Agile Board once the sprint begins.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    Using these related links and lists, you can streamline story management by splitting large stories, creating and tracking scrum tasks, managing dependencies, and converting stories into epics to better organize your agile backlog. This enhances your ability to maintain clear story hierarchies, track progress accurately, and ensure prerequisite conditions are met before story completion.

    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.