How can I add dividers into the Backlog Items

[Deleted user]

Hello! 

I saw in one of the projects that it is possible to add dividers into the Backlog items in order to group them. 

Could you please help me out how I can add those dividers?

Thank you!
Nastya

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @[deleted] ,

can you share an image or more details of what you saw? Is this Kanban or Scrum? OOTB Scrum backlog can have multiple sprints that sort of divides up the backlog while Kanban only has two areas - backlog and active board issues.

[Deleted user]

Hi Jack,

below is the image how I see my backlog. I know it is possible to add dividers between the Backlog items and group them. At least, I found here how to add dividers, but it seems like my Jira doesn't allow to do it as it is described here: https://help.scrummate.com/article/110-segmenting-the-backlog-using-dividers

[Jack Brickey]

Hi Nastya, so the article you provided the link to is actually for a different tool that Jira. It is for Scrummate.

Your image tells me you are using a scrum board. It appears you have two sprints defined though the first is cutoff. I expect it is Sprint 1 and possible is active, while Sprint 2 is waiting to start one Sprint 1 completes. Then there is the Backlog section that represents issues that have not yet been allocated to any sprint. Typically, project managers/scrum masters will use Ranking to stack rank the backlog and often that might really mean that the top 10-20 issues are actually ranked and the rest just sits at the bottom awaiting their turn to bubble up to the top. But actual behaviors vary of course. As I mentioned prior, you can certainly create multiple sprints as a means of dividing your backlog. Just add Sprint 3, 4, 5.... if that makes sense and helps you. You can always move issues around by drag and drop or right-click. While it isn't really intended as such you can use this method as sort of a bucket-izing of issues. The only downside is that you can't arbitrarily label them as they adhere to your sprint naming.

Hope this has helped!