Problem:
Management needs a way to
- view a product's overall progress
- see what issues are being worked on by every department for that product.
Dev teams need a way to
- run sprints with multiple projects on one board
What I've tried to do:
- Created Jira software projects for each product with a Kanban board to show overall status
- Created Jira software projects for each of the teams (Hardware Team, Software Team, Mobile Team etc.) with scrum boards to run sprints
- Created swimlanes for projects on the scrum boards and swimlanes for JQL "labels = department name"
Team board example
Zeus is one of our projects.
Project Board Example
I chose this format in order to get the "Roadmap" feature to help give mgmt a 10k foot view for how long a project is going to take and to help break down the timeline for each department to know when to expect certain epics to be done. The Dev team was attaching a component to each product to group issues, but that didn't allow mgmt to see an overview of what all the teams were doing on one product at a given time or give a time frame (roadmap) of when it was going to be completed.
Mainly, I'm just wondering if there is a better way to achieve this transparency across projects and departments with these boards.