Starting a sprint on my board (FE board) closes the BE team's board

[Tefik Iseinovic]

Whenever i start the sprint on the FE team's board, the BE board's items all move from the active sprint to the backlog and when i go the BE active sprint board, i can only see some the FE team's tickets/tasks there, while the rest of them, as i said, are all in their backlog.

This also works vice versa - when the BE starts their sprint, all of the FE teams items get removed from the active sprint board and go to the backlog.

What's going on and how do i fix it? 

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Tefik Iseinovic

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

This can happen when both boards are sharing the same filter scope, so when a sprint is started or completed on one board, it affects the other. In Jira, a sprint belongs to a single board/filter, not to individual teams.

Most likely, your FE and BE boards have overlapping JQL filters, so they are effectively operating on the same sprint.

To fix this, make sure each team has its own board with a distinct filter, so each board manages its own independent sprints

[Tefik Iseinovic]

Hi @Gor Greyan 

Thanks for the insight! We'll start by deleting the filters and then maybe try inserting them one by one to determine which one caused this. Can you let me know which filters we should be focusing on? The ones on the left-hand side, or the ones on top of the board, the "Quick Filters"?

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Thanks

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Tefik Iseinovic

You should focus on the main board filter, not the Quick Filters. Quick Filters only affect what you see temporarily, while the board filter defines which issues — and therefore which sprints — belong to the board.

You can check this in Board settings → General → Filter query to see which filter the board is using. If both boards use the same filters, they’ll end up sharing the same sprints, which is why you’re seeing this behavior.

Let me know if anything else is needed.

[Anshuman Ankur]

Dear @Tefik Iseinovic ,

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

If you are using company managed project instead of team managed and you want to still run two parallel sprints with same JQL filters for two boards, you can try enabling the functionality of parallel sprints. 

Go to Settings --> Jira Apps --> Jira Configurations

Here you will find a toggle button as shown below. Enable it and you should be able to create 2 sprints- one for FE board and one for BE board. 

Let me know if this helps. 

[Tefik Iseinovic]

Hi @Anshuman Ankur 

Thanks for the reply! I don't have these admin rights but will contact the person who does to see that we have this toggle enabled. Thanks!