The issue hierarchy is viewable in all issues in Jira projects added to the SAFe® hierarchy via My Organization.
It is either already available in an issue’s detail view or the hierarchy can be added by clicking the SAFe® Hierarchy button in the ‘Apps’ drawer of the issue view toolbar.
The core purpose of issue hierarchy links is two-fold and can be understood as follows:
Provides the context of which higher-level work that the work of a team or an ART contributes to.
Defines the visualization of ART feature swimlanes on the team boards.
The issue hierarchy link unveils how an issue in a project on one of the upper SAFe® hierarchy layers is being broken down into work at a lower level. It always displays the current issue’s hierarchical links (parent issue + children) if available.
Parent-Child Relationships (general):
It links issues hierarchically, that are located on adjacent layers in the ‘My Organization’ project hierarchy.
Each issue can have exactly one parent issue (except for issues in Portfolio-level projects). This is always a one-to-one relationship.
Each issue can have multiple child issues linked to it (except for issues in Team-level projects). This is always a one-to-many relationship.
Linking ART-level Projects:
When linking issues from ART-level projects to a parent, users can bypass the Large Solution layer (if configured) and create a direct hierarchical link to any Portfolio-level issue.
Objectives Linking:
Objectives can only be linked to other Objectives.
Whether an issue is classified as an ‘Objective’ depends on the issue type mapping for the respective project. You can view this by navigating to the project in Agile Hive > Project Settings > Issue Types.
In case you need more detailed information on Agile Hive Issue Hierarchy / SAFe® Hierarchy, please also refer to the pages listed below:
Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/ahc-issue-hierarchy