Jira gives you the foundations. Hierarchy for Jira builds on it with a custom work type hierarchy that surfaces dependencies, improves reporting, and keeps your project moving with ease.
Jira is a powerful platform, but the default epic, story and subtask hierarchy can only take your team so far.
Once your projects get more complex, work items get harder to track, blockers can sneak up on your team, and progress gets harder to explain to stakeholders.
The easiest way to build your perfect work item hierarchy
Hierarchy for Jira adds a customisable tree view to any Jira project. It lets you group work however your team needs, and add extra levels to your Jira hierarchy wherever you need them. Thanks to a new level of visibility into how your work items connect, you can identify dependencies across teams, projects, and boards, ensuring your projects never get derailed by surprise blockers.
You can roll up and sum up your columns like Story Points, time spent, and group by label, assignee, sprint—you name it. Then, you can share your hierarchy views using a shareable URL with key stakeholders, or embed it in Confluence for easy reporting.
The setup's quick, and it works straight out-of-the-box!
Why teams using Jira choose Hierarchy for Jira
Whether you're helping clients roll out SAFe, manage complex programmes, or need to keep your leadership team in the loop of an important project, Hierarchy for Jira gives you a clear structure on which to build.
You can:
- Add extra levels between epics and stories to match how your team actually works.
- Make reporting easier, even across multiple boards or projects.
- Visualise your work items in nested tree views that accurately reflect key project milestones, highlight blockers, and display your entire chain of task dependencies.
- Quickly share your hierarchy with a shareable URL, or embed it in a Confluence page for reporting without the manual work.
Thanks to its being built on Atlassian Forge, Hierarchy for Jira is powerful enough for even the largest project teams. It’s also easy enough for teams to adopt without complicated and time-consuming training.
Who benefits from Hierarchy for Jira?
Product Managers and Project Managers: you can track features across teams, surface blockers early, and show progress without chasing updates, making sure your roadmap and backlog always tell the same story!
Individual project team members: With a clear view of how your task fits into the bigger picture, it's easier to prioritise the work that matters. Hierarchy for Jira shows your entire chain of task dependencies that was previously hidden, so you won't start working on a task that's already stuck.
Project and delivery leads: Create and save custom hierarchy views to report on story points, time estimates, and completion rates across all levels of work. Hierarchy for Jira keeps everything in sync, so your updates are always accurate, and you spend less time building them!
What makes it a good fit for your team?
- Hierarchy for Jira works with Jira Cloud Standard. No need to purchase Premium or Enterprise plans to enjoy the benefits of a custom work type hierarchy!
- The app is built on Atlassian's Forge platform, so you get security and performance, no matter how big your project and team are.
- Free for up to 10 users, and comes with a 30-day trial.
Hierarchy for Jira is the best way to improve your project visibility without changing how your team works.
What kind of results can you expect?
We recently sat down with Robert Nadon, Lead Atlassian Architect at Forty8Fifty Labs.
After trying Hierarchy for Jira, Robert is estimating a 20% efficiency boost for project managers and a 10% boost for developers.
What could your team do with all that extra bandwidth?
Interested in learning more about how Robert is using Hierarchy for Jira to craft custom hierarchies that match the complex requirements of teams using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Jira? Discover the full testimonial below.
How Forty8Fifty Labs builds the perfect Jira issue structure with Hierarchy for Jira
"Hierarchy for Jira allows you to go into the product [Jira] and actually add levels in between both the story and the epic, which really solves the problem."
Robert Nadon, Lead Atlassian Architect @ Forty8Fifty Labs
Let's talk at META-INF Day 2025!
Ready to learn more and see how Hierarchy for Jira could work for your team?
Then visit us at our booth at META-INF Atlassian Day 2025! Our friendly app experts will show you how it works, answer your questions, and share a few ideas on how teams like yours are already using it to support their ambitious projects.
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