Is there any way to assign multiple assignee's to Stories or tasks? This should NEVER be restricted.

[Deleted user]

Is there any way to assign multiple assignee's to Stories or tasks? This should NEVER be restricted.. why in the world would we want to restrict this? VersionOne with all its shortcomings would at least support this.

Any ideas for this folks?

Steve Josue

[JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_ · Accepted solution]

No, that's not possible by concept: One issue (task, story,...) one assignee. Right way to do it IMHO, you can always create subtasks to split up the work.

Think of tracking time for multiple assignees or who's responsible if there's more than one assignee? "I thought, you were working on it... 8-)"

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Everywhere, absolutely everywhere I've been, multiple assignee means "I thought the other one was working on it".   In real life it does not work.

There is no harm in having an extra field for other involved people or groups, but the assignee means "this single person is the one currently responsible"  (even if it's just their responsibility to assign it on to someone else!)

[Deleted user]

In hind-site, I guess I should have posed this as a technical only question without my opinion. I'll withdraw it. In VersionOne tool we had multiple assignee's and in effective standups where you discuss these issues F2F I've never had an issue with " I thought the other guy was doing it". Thanks for the replies! - Steve

[Senthilkumar Ananthakrishnan]

JIRA is not only for Scrum/Kanban practices. It can be used in multiple ways and can compete with tools like Monday.com, Zenkit, Asana etc. For Roadmap or Product management on highlevel.

Sometimes we need multiple assignee on single field or can create custom field & assign multiple members along with Assignee field.

However i like if the below feature is included in JIRA

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-16411

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It doesn't matter what you're using Jira for, you need a single responsible person for any issue and Jira has the assignee field for that.

There is no harm in having an extra field for other involved people or groups, but the assignee means "this single person is the one currently responsible".  Thomas's request is not the broken "multiple assignee", but the ability to show the others that you choose to involve.