Epic Sum Up

I knew that Epic Sum Up provides rollup information with a drill-down view when working with a hierarchy (Epic, Story, Sub-task). Recently i needed to get a higher overview like on Feature or Initiative level. Surprisingly (to me) this also is possible with Epic Sum Up without the direct need for portfolio management add-ons. :) And even when using portfolio add-ons, Epic Sum Up still gives me a quick overview and drill-down to create easy reporting and overview for budgets and results. Great help and useful answers to all my support questions on how to implement this. Awesome! Thank you very much!

We originally got this App for the Epic Sum Up behavior which worked for what we needed. We were pleasantly surprised when we upgraded and found the Container link feature. It gives us functionality we were planning to script on our own. Looking forward to enhancements to this feature. Support was great as well. Reported a problem with my setup not working as detected. They responded quickly and were able to help me diagnose the problem and help me get it working with their 1st response. I highly recommend this app!

Great plugin, unfortunately not suitable for us. Nevertheless, the APTIS guys helped us in finding elsewhere a solution for our issue. This kind of customer care (and we were not even customers from APTIS) is something the others can learn from. Thumbs Up!

We really like this plugin, specifically for the issue navigator attached to Epic's. We often use this for adjusting / reviewing time estimates. The view alone justifies the purchase. It's a pity that it's a bit obscure to get to (clicking on the time summary panel bars). Why I also like this plugin is because it's generally been pretty light-weight / easy to maintain and install. We had some issues recently and APTIS support were very responsive in getting it resolved. Generally it does exactly what it needs to do and does it well.

Used Epic Sum Up Pro for 6 plus months with JIRA Server. Overall, Epic Sum Up is a great add-on that really extends users' ability to aggregate status across Epics or use the Container feature to aggregate status across the multiple levels of issues within the Container. This is extremely useful for reporting on the status of a Product or across a multi-project program. The integration with the Filter Results widget is especially useful, as it allows Scrum Masters and Product Owners to create a summary view of all the Epics in a Product Increment that can be included on a Dashboard for reporting up to management/executives. This can potentially be used as a replacement for JIRA's Release Hub, which is limited to displaying progress within a fixVersion by issue count. Suggested improvements: - Performance. Tickets can be very slow to load with all of the features turned on. We limited the Summary Panel to Epics only, and used very tight filters in the Filter Results gadget to ensure that screens did not take more than 30 seconds to load. If there's a way to optimize this, it would be very beneficial. When displaying the Filter Results gadget on a JIRA Dashboard or in Confluence, performance starts to degrade once 10 or so Epics are all being displayed at once, and if more than one of the Epic Sum Up custom fields is included. - Export. It would be great to be able to export the Detail View, and the Filter Results to a spreadsheet format, for reporting purposes when it's not feasible for a potential consumer of the report to look at it online. - Integration with the JIRA Release Hub. Currently, the Release Hub only rolls up issue count into its tracking by Fix Version. It would be nice to be able to override this and use Story Points, or Time Spent as the unit of measure for a summary of progress toward a Fix Version. I guess this would more properly be "Fix Version Sum Up", Currently, the workaround would be to use a Container instead, but this adds overhead because it doesn't key off of the Fix Version field in JIRA. - Standalone Summary Panel/Detail View. One of the most frustrating parts of the user experience with the add-on, is having to click into a Container or Epic to see the Summary Panel and then click on a progress bar to get the Detail View. It would be nice to have a link or widget in the Project Statistics view that provides a list of all Epics in the project and displays a Detail View AND/OR an icon in the sidebar below the Components icon that jumps to a similar page at the Project level. - Better Documentation. While the documentation on the site is just enough to get up and running, there are gaps around common use cases for set up and usage, and the screenshots are cropped too tightly on many pages, so it's difficult to understand what screen one is on for a given feature. It's not immediately obvious, for example, that the Summary Panel is only available in the body of a ticket, and we struggled a little to get the fields configured correctly, so that issue counts did not also include the Epics themselves. The Container documentation is especially baffling and could use some fleshing out, based on examples of possible use cases.