Feature Release: Epic Tree View for Complete Work Hierarchy Visibility

Modern Scrum projects move fast — but visibility often does not. As products scale, teams struggle to clearly see how epics, features, stories, tasks, and sub-tasks relate to each other. The Epic Tree View in Orangescrum is designed to solve this exact problem by presenting the entire work hierarchy in a single, structured, and intuitive view.

This feature empowers project managers, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams to understand dependencies, progress, and scope at a glance — without jumping across multiple screens.

The Problem: Why Scrum Teams Lose Visibility as Projects Scale

In a typical Scrum project, work is broken down progressively — from high-level business objectives to executable tasks. However, as the backlog grows, teams often face these challenges:

• Epics, features, and stories are managed in separate views, making it difficult to understand how work is connected.
• Project managers must manually piece together information to answer simple questions like “Which tasks are blocking this epic?”
• Scrum teams lose clarity on how their daily tasks contribute to larger business goals.
• Stakeholders lack a single source of truth to track progress across the full hierarchy.

As a result, planning becomes reactive, reviews become fragmented, and predictability suffers. This is exactly why a clear, visual hierarchy is essential — and why we built the Epic Tree View.

Why We Built the Epic Tree View

It was built directly from real-world feedback.

Over the past few quarters, multiple Orangescrum customers — especially product-led SaaS teams, IT services companies, and enterprise Agile teams — shared a consistent pain point:

“We want to see everything connected — epics to tasks — in one place.”

Customers asked for:

• A hierarchical representation of work instead of flat lists
• Faster understanding of scope and progress during sprint planning and reviews
• A way to explain project structure clearly to stakeholders

Taking this feedback seriously, our product team designed the Epic Tree View to be simple, scalable, and immediately actionable — without disrupting existing workflows.

How to Access the Epic Tree View in Orangescrum

Accessing the Epic Tree View is straightforward and requires no configuration.

• Navigate to the left panel in Orangescrum
• Click on “Epics”
• On the top-right corner, click the Tree View icon
• Instantly view your project in Epic Tree View

This allows teams to switch between standard list views and the hierarchical tree view based on their planning or tracking needs.

What Is an Epic Tree View? (Detailed Explanation)

The Epic Tree View visually represents your entire project structure in a parent – child hierarchy:

• Epic: The highest-level initiative representing a major business goal or product capability.
• Features (under the Epic): Functional components that collectively deliver the epic.
• Stories (under each Feature): User-centric requirements that describe value from an end-user perspective.
• Tasks (under each Story): Actionable units of work required to complete the story.
• Sub-tasks (under each Task): Granular activities assigned to individuals for execution.

This layered structure mirrors how Agile teams actually work, but now it is visible in a single, expandable tree view — making relationships instantly clear.

IT Project Use Case: Building a SaaS Product Integration

Project: CRM Integration Module

• Epic: Third-Party Integrations
  • Feature: GitLab Integration
    • Story: Enable repository linking
      • Task: Implement OAuth authentication
        • Sub-task: Token validation logic
      • Task: Fetch repository metadata
    • Story: Display commit history
  • Feature: Bitbucket Integration
    • Stories, tasks, and sub-tasks continue similarly

With Epic Tree View:

• Project managers can instantly see how many stories and tasks belong to each integration
• Scrum teams understand where their tasks fit within the epic
• Dependencies and progress gaps become visible without manual tracking

How Epic Tree View Benefits Project Managers and Scrum Teams

Project Managers

• Complete visibility into scope, progress, and hierarchy
• Faster impact analysis when priorities change
• Easier stakeholder communication using a single visual structure

Scrum Masters

• Better sprint planning with clear context
• Faster identification of blocked or overloaded areas
• Improved backlog refinement sessions

Development Teams

• Clear understanding of how daily tasks contribute to business goals
• Reduced confusion caused by fragmented views
• Improved ownership and accountability

Leadership & Stakeholders

• High-level overview without diving into task-level noise
• Improved confidence in delivery timelines
• Better alignment between strategy and execution

Conclusion

The Epic Tree View transforms how teams visualize and manage work in Orangescrum. By bringing the entire Agile hierarchy into one unified view, it eliminates fragmentation, improves alignment, and strengthens delivery confidence.

This feature is another step toward making Orangescrum a clear, predictable, and enterprise-ready Agile platform — built from real customer feedback and designed for real project challenges.