Does anyone have any recommendations for managing a product with multiple teams? Ops focused and Agi

[skitts]

Does anyone have any recommendations for managing a product with multiple teams? Ops focused and Agile focused? 

One team is prioritizing items and the other prioritizes their own but some of them (items/stories) are involved with both teams. Any recommendations?

[Eduardo Anflor - MindPro]

Hi, @skitts 

Welcome to the community!

Are you referring to managing this product using the Jira boards? If so, you could have a separate board for each team, plus one board whose filter could concentrate the activities that are common to both teams. Or, if you prefer, a single board only, accessed by both teams, with parallel sprints. It will depend on how your process runs today. The problem would be logging time on the activities since Jira does not handle for what team the time is being entered.

If you are open to trying a marketplace solution and want to manage products at a more strategic level and plan to control team worklogs in detail, I recommend you Mindpro Deliver (I work as a product leader at Mindpro). 

You can create a delivery plan (you can call it a project or product as well), define the planned work, and how much % each team will be assigned to it.

Then, when you log time, the system will ask you the team you are entering time for (an exclusive feature in the marketplace). So, people who work for different teams can log time in the same issue and you can know how much time is being logged for each team:

And you can track the activities and costs using the app's reports:

The best part is that you can continue using the issues in your agile boards to handle your sprints, while you control the product costs and tracking using the app.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Eduardo