New Team/Cross-team Burnup Chart for Initiatives or any entity above the Epic

In a Scaled Agile environment, the Jira process needs structuring with complex hierarchies beyond standard offerings. Enterprises adapt by renaming and creating new issue and link types, building an issue architecture above the basic Epic-Story-Sub-task structure.

Adjustments typically involve creating 'boxes' for the Program level and 'boxes of boxes' for the Portfolio level. Medium-sized businesses may use just one level above the Epic.

Commonly, Program Epics are on Level 1, and Initiatives on Level 2 of this hierarchy:

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Considering all mentioned, we created a new chart in the catalog:

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In chart settings, to create a chart for a particular scope, you can select the top-level issue for tracking, set the issue level in the hierarchy, and specify the link type to exclude irrelevant links (e.g., “blocked by”):

If you have different link types on different levels, you also can select more than one link type:

To get more details about chart configuration, please read this article.