Azure DevOps Epic/Feature Timeline Items in Removed State Spanning Multiple Sprints

Question

I am trying to view the Epic/Feature Timeline and noticing completed Epics, Features and Stories are spanning all sprints. I am wondering if this has to do with Stories and Bugs with a state of Removed because Removed is not considered a final state so DevOps is considering those Stories and Bugs to not be resolved?

Is there a way to make Removed a final state or is there a workaround for this (other than deleting all removed items)?

Thank you to anyone that can provide direction.

Shad

FYI - I tried to filter to only states I wanted listed in the backlog but this did nothing to the timeline and expanded all items within the epics.

Answer 1

Removed state is not considered a final state and DevOps doesn’t think those Stories and Bugs are not resolved. Here is workflow state (Agile process) and you can see that Removed state is designed an independent branch flow, So Removed state can’t be made to a final state in this design pattern.

Work items in a state mapped to the Removed category are hidden from the backlog and board experiences .You can’t see removed state work items in Feature Timeline but still list these items using a query. Please refer to doc: How workflow category states are used in Azure Boards backlogs and boards

However, there's a workaround to achieve it.

disable Removed State in process and add state name that's similar to Removed in complete type.(e.g：Removed back) .You'll see work items of Removed back state showing in Feature Timeline.