Create sprints in my project is creating a sprint for a different project

[Lindsey Abrahamsen]

Hello

When I create a sprint in my project in Jira, it is creating a sprint for a different project. For example, my board is APO. When I click create sprint in the APO backlog, it creates a sprint for another project which sprints are titled IT#. How can I stop this from occurring. I need all sprints in APO board to be for the APO project board and not the IT project board.

Thanks

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lindsey Abrahamsen and welcome to the Community!

Sprints are not specific to a project. They are generated from a scrum board, but as you can use a filter to add issues from any Jira project to a single board, sprints can theoretically be associated with any issue in your Jira instance.

As soon as a Jira issue appears on multiple boards (because the issue is fetched by the filter behind those boards), these sprints are also visualised on these multiple boards.

There is not much you can do to avoid this to happen, apart from applying best practices as much as you can:

• If your sprints are specific to a team or a project, consider including a reference to that team or project in your sprint names. That helps users to accidentally select sprints from a different board when they are planning.
• If you add issues to a sprint from the Sprint field on your issues, you have the option to select only sprints from the current project. With that option selected, you also narrow down the chance of selecting wrong sprints.
• Communicate with other teams within your organisation so you are aligned in terms of naming conventions and practices to use when setting up boards or running sprint planning in practice.

Hope this helps!

[Louise Baker]

Question related to your second bullet point.

I have Project A and Project B. Project A used to be a prety active project, and that's where I first enabled sprints. However, Project A is no longer 'in use' (you cannot create any new tickets, but tickets are still there for historical purposes). I am using a sprint board I made in Project B, that only references Project B, and I'm making sprints here. However, when I go to Sprint field in issue view, it auto checks (Only show sprints in this Project) and hides all my current sprints.

How do I disable this? I'm not making sprints on a board that's even assocaited at all with Project A, yet my sprints I'm making seem to be associated with Project A anyway.