Jira Roadmaps -- how to extend stories across multiple sprints

PabloS

We have many sprints created going out several months into the future.

We are now trying to position stories on the roadmap, but it looks like Jira wants them each to occupy a single sprint.

This is not how the world works. 

Is there a way to make the bar representing a story's start/end date stretch across multiple sprints? 

 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There is a fundamental misunderstanding here.

You say "... but it looks like Jira wants them each to occupy a single sprint.  This is not how the world works. "

Jira expects them to be in a single sprint because that is how Scrum works.  It's irrelevant how you think the world work, because one of the main things about Scrum is that stories should be deliverable within a sprint.  It does not always happen, and Scrum recognises that, but when it does not happen, the fact that it has failed is an important part of the feedback into improving your processes.

Jira is just following the principles.  If you think a story should go across sprints, you have not understood what a sprint is for.  When a story goes across sprints, it shows an exception - we got the story estimate wrong, we should have split it up, something else got in the way, we got something else wrong, etc

In the real world, a story never goes across sprints.  Not without screaming "something is broken, this is an exception, and your reporting should be saying so"