Why my jira has no side bar on system preference, no backlog icon, no scrum or sprint functions?

[Da Cao]

I'm trying to use scrum / sprint on my jira where I can manage a standup with a single dashboard and on the dashboard I can view/manage tickets from various projects. 

However, the jira tutorial is impossible to follow:  My system dashboard has no backlog icon. 

Is it because I'm using a Free plan? 

[Jack Brickey]

Ha Da, welcome to the Community. Your free plan would not limit any of the scrum board features. First are you using next-gen or Classic projects? Can you share a screen shot? Which Jira tutorial are you using? Can you share a link to that tutorial?

[Da Cao]

I'm using classic projects. I'm confused on how to open a scrum board. 

It seems that I need to click backlog on sidebar and from backlog, start a sprint. The sprint board is something like a single dashboard where I can view/manage tickets from various projects. 

But, There is no sidebar on my dashboard. 

[Da Cao]

[Da Cao]

[Da Cao]

What I eventually want is to manage a standup with a single dashboard and on the dashboard I can view/manage tickets from various projects, like Research, Devops, Engineering, Client...etc.  

My previous company has beed using it to manage sprints all the time. 

[Jack Brickey]

Da, it seems you might be a bit confused between Dashboards (image 1), Kanban boards (image 2), and scrum boards. Maybe this will help...

Dashboards is a place to build a view that can provide many unique bits of info about one or more projects. It can include filtered lists, calendars, sprint details, pie charts, etc.

Kanban boards give a team the ability to monitor and progress issues thru the workflow moving left to right. In its simplest form --> To Do, In Progress and Done. Kanbans may or may not have a Backlog.

Scrum boards are very similar to Kanban board but focus on intervals of work (sprints); 2 weeks is a typical interval. If you want the scrum approach you will start in the Backlog and create a sprint, moving issues into the sprint during a planning session and then starting the sprint. At that point the Active Sprint view will show the issues selected for the sprint and the team can progress them left to right.

In your second image it appears that your project is setup as a Kanban project. You can still create a scrum board for that same project. Just click on the search bar, select Boards at the bottom, select Create board in the top right and follow the presented instructions. If you are dealing w/ a single project then you can simply choose to create from existing project if more complex then you will need to build/reference a filter.

hope this helps.