Jira Project Boards - Information Transferring to all 3

Question

Hi Everyone,

We have multiple projects in Jira and approximately 7 days ago we noticed 3 sprint boards appear to be connected somehow.

Project 1 shows sprints from Project 2 & 3. But the name of the sprint in Project 1 is the same as Project 2 but the tasks are related to Project 1. If I change the name of the sprint in Project 1 it changes the name of the sprint in project 2.

If I create a backlog item in Project 1 - it does not appear in the project but is given the Project ID.

I tried to see if it was a filter or linking issue but I have not been able to figure it out.

I could really use some help!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

This is something that is quite confusing for a lot of us, but I find the way to think about it is to separate things out one by one.  So:

We are all clear that an issue is a chunk of data representing "something that needs some attention"

* Projects are containers for collections of issues.
* That's actually pretty much it for plain Jira.  But we are looking at Jira Software here, where boards come in, and then sprints etc.

A board is a view of a set of issues.

* The issues displayed on a board are determined by a board filter, which can select all sorts of stuff.  Often, it's as simple as "show me a project", but you can be more complex, drawing in many projects or issue types, users, flags, components, whatever.  Anything you can do in JQL, you can run a board from.
* A sprint is an artefact generated by a board.  Not a project.  Sprints are not part of a project.  They are independent items themselves, but created from boards.  As such, they could contain issues from many projects.

What you are seeing is the independent sprints.  When you are looking at a sprint "in project 1" and you rename it, you're not renaming "a sprint in project 1", you are renaming a sprint that covers all the projects.  It's a single sprint, not separate ones, so if you change it from project 1, it's going to change in 2 and 3.