Quick summary
Adding an Epic to a Sprint in Jira involves locating the Epic's child issues in the Backlog view and dragging them into the active sprint. Once the issues are added and the sprint is started, you can track Epic progress directly from the board.
Steps
- Select and open a Scrum project from the Jira projects list.
- Navigate to the Backlog view of your Scrum board.
- Locate the stories and tasks that belong to the Epic in the backlog.
- Drag and drop those issues from the backlog into the sprint.
- Click 'Start sprint' to activate the sprint with the Epic's issues included.
- Monitor Epic progress by tracking the completion of issues added to the sprint.
