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How to manage multiple teams in one project?

lukaloncar

My company runs currently 6 different projects. Besides that, we have 8 different teams (backend, frontend, design, marketing, animations, video, management, content)

Let's take only one project for example. How can I create one project, fill its backlog with issues and assign them to different teams? I would like to have different sprint for each team separately, but inside same project. And also I would like to have Project based Kanban board that would hold all issues in one place.

Shortly, I fill backlog with issues, and then start to assign them to different sprints (based on which team they belong), but also they appear in Kanban board.

Is this possible? I would appreciate step by step explanation.

Accepted answers

lukaloncar

Hi everyone,

I want to thank you for the effort about this problem. Your responses helped a bit, but I managed to create workflow by myself after lots YT clips, and forum posts.

Here is what I did:

- Created project with Scrum board in classic view

- Created one Master Board, and different boards for each team in that project

- Created Component with the name of each team so that I can filter by those components

- Went to each board settings and added filter query by Components, and selected component for each board

- Configured each issue to have Component drop down menu right bellow reporter for smoother experience

- Assigned each issue a component label

This way you have one master backlog, and separate team backlogs. When you start teams sprints, you will see sprints separately on each team board, and one Master sprint on main board.

Hope this helps everyone.

All comments

Michael Kuhl {Appfire}

Hi @lukaloncar - Try using Project Components. This will allow you to associate each team with a Component. Then you can set the component(s) on each issue. You can then configure the filter for each team's board to show only issues that have that team's component assigned to it or use swim-lanes on one board to visually distinguish the different teams work.

Tyler Coil

This is not a feature of Next-Gen though correct?

lukaloncar

Can you please tell me this... How can I create different teams?

Michael Kuhl {Appfire}

@Tyler Coil - Correct. You would need to add a custom field with the team names in a next-gen project.

lukaloncar

Hi everyone,

I want to thank you for the effort about this problem. Your responses helped a bit, but I managed to create workflow by myself after lots YT clips, and forum posts.

Here is what I did:

- Created project with Scrum board in classic view

- Created one Master Board, and different boards for each team in that project

- Created Component with the name of each team so that I can filter by those components

- Went to each board settings and added filter query by Components, and selected component for each board

- Configured each issue to have Component drop down menu right bellow reporter for smoother experience

- Assigned each issue a component label

This way you have one master backlog, and separate team backlogs. When you start teams sprints, you will see sprints separately on each team board, and one Master sprint on main board.

Hope this helps everyone.

murari tikmani

We have been using a similar approach. that said, this causes one problem. in the jira backlog, we can do filter based on only version and epic name. so when you create a jira from the jira backlog page, it auto populates version and epic name but doesn't populate component name. Due to this, the issue which you create using "one-liner" jira creation method available at the bottom of backlog, doesn't appear in the backlog after it is created because the "Component" is missing in the jira story created.

Anand Sanke

@John Doe, your master board should be kanban for better project management. And your team boards should be scrum. Don't share issues among your team's scrum boards.

K Vasavi

Can you please help with, "one-liner" jira creation method ? what is this method?

Emmanuel Amodeo

@murari tikmani you can adjust your filter on each board with something like

poject = [project] AND (component = [relevant component for board] OR component is EMPTY?)

it works. I now have separate sprints for each team which are not visible between them and a common backlog (until I assign an issue to a component). Issues with no component (when they are created with the one line quick create) appear in all boards until I assign them a component.