Shared Teams Velocity

Question

Hi all,

Is there a way to report on the cross-project velocity of shared teams setup using Jira Advanced Roadmaps?

Bill Sheboy · Answer

I am not using Jira Align so I cannot help there...perhaps others in the community can chime in.

Regarding your thoughts about filtering for refinement/planning (in your first paragraph), you could add a quick filter to the board/backlog, allowing you to just see what is needed...hiding the other projects.

Ryan A_qhvurr · Answer

Thanks @Bill Sheboy the first option would work well, but the complication I've had is in sprint planning, it seems that if I want to prioritise from a collective backlog, based on a board that filters in from multiple projects, some of the functionality that would usually make backlog grooming easier (like drilling down by epics on the left-hand side) looses it's utility because you end up with a long list of epics from multiple projects and it's hard to focus on any one project/functional area at a time because you can't temporarily filter by project in the ways that you can by epic.

The path I went down was to create individual sprints on a project level so that I could plan from the individual project backlogs, but to then roll all of these projects up into a single filtered board for a cross-project view.

But what I failed to consider is that this will make a headache of velocity reporting, because I can only report on sprint velocity by a single sprint, not batched sprints.

Have I understood this properly? If so, I might need to change approach. I'm sure there's functionality in Jira align that would make cross-project sprint planning a little easier, but the price point is set so high I'm trying to see if we can make do with Jira

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Thanks for explaining that, Ryan.  I have seen this done at least two ways, each with pros/cons:

* A team has a board (somewhere...) which covers all of their work.  The filter could span one or more projects.  Then the reports for that team's board reflect their capacity and throughput.
* Even though people are on a "team", when they are a shared team perhaps the individual people are temporarily on another team completely.  Then their capacity is only relevant to the team to which they are on-loan.