Displaying Kanban boards within another project sprint?

[Sam Medlock- Matthews]

Hey folks!

I have recently taken over production for my company and have been given to the task of clearing up our many Jira projects. One thing we have as a company is an overall company sprint that pulls in all of the projects and displays them in one sprint for people to easily see their tasks across the multiple projects. 

I seem to have an issue where I cannot get Kanban boards to be added to the Sprint. I know it is possible as we have existing Kanban boards displaying on company sprint. I have a vague memory of the old producer showing me a Jquery filter that could be added to a board to make it appear on our company sprint. Unfortunately they have now left the company and I have no way to find out what exactly they did.

For Scrum boards, I simple have to set the project to a "Live Project" and it pulls the sprint into the company sprint. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Sam Medlock- Matthews 

A board is a view of one or more projects, displaying the issues returned by the filter.  As you describe it, I believe you have multiple projects using Scrum boards, and then you roll-up the results to one company-level board.  Is that correct?

If so, the company-level board (with multiple projects) could be a Kanban board, rather than a Scrum board.  And, people would update items on their team's Scrum boards, leaving the Kanban board as a display-only, visibility board.

Once you have the Kanban board, you can:

• Ensure all of the status values are mapped to columns.  I recommend simplifying those as the various teams may have different columns/status values.  Maybe something like ToDo, In Progress, and Done.
• Update the board filter to include all of the relevant projects: 

project IN (myProject1, myProject2, etc.) ORDER BY Rank

• And, you may want to adjust the Kanban board's setting for "Hide completed issues older than" in order to hide older work that is completed

Please see this documentation for more info on configuring a board:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-a-classic-board/

Best regards,

Bill