Newbie question. How best to see my tasks/sprints in a consolidated view?

[Michael Arndt]

New here and still learning.

I have multiple projects and sprints I'm handling. Currently it's just me and I want to get my projects, tasks and sprints organized before I even attempt to introduce Jira to my team.

So from what I see each project has a sprint board.

Within the sprint board we pull in tasks, stories, bugs from the backlog and create our sprint and then I run those sprint items through a workflow until completion. Does that sound right so far?

I'm concerned that all my tasks will be fragmented across several projects. Is there a way to see them in a consolidated view? 

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

You have the basics of how things work correct.  It is also possible to create your own custom Boards and display any issues that you need to.  Atlassian has a quick tutorial on how to create a board.  You will also need to read over the doc on configuring your board and learn how searching work in Jira.

Simply put, you will first create a filter that contains the issues that you want in your board. This may take some playing around with in order to get the search to display what you're after.  Once you have the results you are after, you can save that as a "filter" and then use it to populate your board.  I suggest reading through the docs that I linked above and it should start to make sense. I hope that helps!