Rally Software

I have been suggested that nested stories should not be created (stories within a story) and that stories should be kept at just one level below the lowest level of portfolio items. But I haven't come across any issues because of this in the standard apps and graphs so far. e.g. milestone cumulative flow diagrams. I can vouch for atleast this app, because I have tested this multiple times with various combinations of child stories and features at multiple levels just to be sure.

Is there anything that I'm missing- any page or report that gives incorrect data because of this? Is there any specific reason why we should stop creating child user stories? 

Regards,

Niveditha

Hi Niveditha,

No, there isn't a reason you shouldn't create hierarchies of User Stories. They are designed for hierarchies and do and should work just fine. Clearly, if you come across any problem or concern then you're welcome to raise it but, generally speaking, User Stories are designed to work in hierarchies and you should certainly be able to use them in this way.

Thanks.

Sagi

Thank you very much Sagi! That is reassuring.

Is there any best process for handling hierarchies of stories at all? For e.g. only one team should own all the stories in a parent story or anything like that? 

I would really appreciate some knowledge there.

Regards,

Niveditha

The report "Print Story Cards" does not handle nested stories properly - it only prints the top level. Because our team prints out story cards for release planning, this is an issue for us.

Our team is going back to single level stories unless I (rapidly) find a way around this issue.

Thank you. This is the kind of information I was looking for. We don't use Print Story Cards, yet. But good to know this.