Linking a risk together between 2 JIRA boards

[Andrew Chung]

Is it possible to link a project risk in one board to a PMO board where they both use JIRA?

I would want to ideally create a single risk issue type and then clone it on the other PMO board so i manage one risk item and not 2. Can this be done?

[Scott Theus]

Hi @Andrew Chung 

As long as the two projects/boards use the same instance of Jira then yes, this is possible. You can create a filter that pulls in the risk issue type from the projects and create your PMO board from that.

Boards are just visual representations of filters, so if you can create a filter to pull the issues you want you can display them on a board. You can also use dashboards and add gadgets  with different filters to display lists of issues (Like a list of issues assigned to the current user, a list of bugs, and a list of risks.)

-Scott

[Andrew Chung]

Thank you for your sharing. I am not exactly clear yet on how this works. If I create a risk on one board do I have to create the same risk on the other board? Then link them? How do I manage 2 instances of a single risk between the 2 boards? For example which is master and which is slave? How can I determine if the boards are running on the same instance?

[Andrew Chung]

Would creating a clone be a good way to have a risk on a project board and link it with a PMO board?

[Scott Theus]

No, you do not need to create two risks or clone the risk on the project board.

Instead you would create a filter for the PMO board that pulls in all the risks from every project ("issuetype = Risk order by created DESC") and make your PMO board from that filter

Then you'd create a second filter that pulls the riskss from a single project ("project = XYZ AND issuetype = Risk order by created DESC") and build your project board form that filter.

Here is more information on creating boards: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/creating-a-board-764477949.html

-Scott

[Bastian Stehmann]

Hi @Andrew Chung ,

Boards are just a visualisation of the issues. So it is no problem to show the risk on both boards.

You just have to edit the filter that selects the issues for the PMO board so that it selects the linked issues.

And you might need to edit the board configuration so that the status used in the risk-workflow are represented on the board.