How to Hide a sprint from certain users in the project?

[Saadoon Ameer]

Hi,  I have multiple teams working on the project, and I want to configure the board in such a way that a specific team should only be able to see their sprint and more importantly, future sprints in the backlog shouldn't be viewable to the developers. Is there a way to hide sprint(s) from any user in the project?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Saadoon Ameer 

I am confused by your question, so I am hoping you can clarify a bit.

A JIRA scrum board is normally used by one team, and provides a view of the backlog for one active sprint.  (managed by the board's filter)

If there is a different scrum team, with a different sprint, why wouldn't they have their own scrum board?

Best regards,

Bill

[Saadoon Ameer]

Hi @Bill Sheboy Thanks for your response. I hope this clarifies my concern

 So basically, have multiple teams working on the project, and I want to configure the board in such a way that a specific team should only be able to see their sprint and more importantly, future sprints in the backlog shouldn't be viewable to the developers. Is there a way to hide sprint(s) from any user in the project?

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for the information...

A JIRA board is a view of the backlog, using a filter and a selection of columns and status values.  A sprint is a collection of backlog items.

When you have multiple boards for one project you need a way to indicate the items on each board.  For example, perhaps each team has a specific Component or Label value.  You could limit Team A's board to only show their items that have their indicator using the filter, such as:

project = myProject AND component = TeamA ORDER BY rank

I am curious why you want to prevent the developers from seeing the future sprints.  Hiding the backlog from the team members seems to violate the agile ideas of transparency and openness. 

Is there a different problem of people pulling in work beyond the scope of the current sprint, or some other concern?  If so, consider discussing and addressing those concerns rather than limiting visibility which could help the team.

[Satya]

You can  think about granting read-only access to certain users , might be helpful to provide restricted access to  the JIRA content.

[Trudy Claspill]

There is no option specifically to make sprints invisible. A scrum board will display the issues that are within the scope of the board's filter and will show all active and not started sprints that include one of those issues, or where the sprint was created in that scrum board.