Issueincluding

Issueincluding is a term used in some project management and issue-tracking discussions to describe the practice of presenting or processing related issues together within a single view, report, or query result. It refers to techniques that aggregate an issue with its related tickets, dependencies, or linked items to provide broader context for analysis and triage.

The concept encompasses both automatic and manual approaches. Automatic inclusion relies on established relationships such as dependencies, duplicates, related tickets, or parent-child linkages. Manual inclusion allows users to explicitly group or bundle issues that are relevant to a given problem or objective. In practice, issueincluding can be implemented through filtering, aggregated dashboards, or dedicated views that display an issue alongside its linked entities.

Common use cases include software development and IT operations, where understanding the full scope of a problem requires seeing blockers, related defects, and changes in one place. For example, a bug report might be viewed together with its blocked issues, duplicate reports, and the corresponding change requests, enabling faster impact assessment and coordinated resolution.

Benefits of issueincluding include improved traceability, better risk assessment, and streamlined communication among teams. Potential drawbacks include information overload, increased complexity of views, and performance considerations in large repositories. It is important to recognize that issueincluding is not a universal standard term; many tools offer similar functionality under names such as linked issues, dependencies, or epics, with varying implementations.

See also: linked issues, dependencies, epic, parent-child relationships, issue tracking.