sprint permissions for board with unknown projects

Question

We have a lot of projects from which we create sprint boards for work that is shared across the company. We don't define the projects in the query so that anyone can be assigned to the workstream.

As the sprint management permissions are set at a project level this means that the ability to start and stop sprints isn't possible except for people who have full admin rights - which isn't sensible.

How can we give permissions to people to manage sprints without defining projects in the board query?

Ste Wright · Answer

Hi @Liz Porritt

Just to confirm - slight modification from above answer!

You don't need the category or anything else in the filter I believe - just provide the permission to Manage Sprints to the users who require it across the 15 projects (which you can do via a group, for example).

The reason for this is that as long as they have the permission and those are the only 15 projects which could end up on a board, then the users will always have permission to all possible projects in any of their filters :)

Of course if you add/remove projects regularly, category is a nice, simple way to manage this.

Ste

Liz Porritt_bd0lj6 · Answer

I tested this Project Category approach and it worked - thanks for your help @Ste Wright

Liz Porritt_bd0lj6 · Answer

Hi @Ste Wright

We do have a unique identifier for bringing out the delivery boards and it was my hope that this would be all that would be needed, so that it would be very easy for a new squad to create a board.

Would it be possible to use Project Category so that we can keep the query simple?