Allow Timeline Sprint Planning with Shared Sprints

Question

One of my favorite features of Jira is using the timeline view to quickly and efficiently add items to sprints by clicking on the timeline.

Our organization is transitioning into SAFe (sigh) and has chosen to create shared sprints which all teams must adapt regardless of project.

Is there a way to use Timeline in the same manner, scheduling child issues in sprints, while using shared sprints?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

True, with AR Plans you make changes to the plan but they do not immediately update the underlying issues. You do have to Review Changes and accept the changes to have the updates saved to the issues.

One other thing about the basic Timeline you were accessing - that can be used only when the board scope is a single, explicitly identified project. So if you had a consolidated board that encompassed multiple Projects then the basic Timeline would not be available.

Jay Fruechte · Answer

I was speaking of the Timeline within the project.

Our company does subscribe to premium, so I'll see if that can be configured from there. The best I could find with 5 minutes of effort was displaying the sprint field and having to select it from a dropdown then having to Save Selected Changes to Jira

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Jay Fruechte

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Are you talking about the Timeline feature that is available in the left-side navigation panel when viewing a board, or the Timeline feature available from an Advanced Roadmaps Plan?

If you are talking about the former, the answer is a qualified "no". If you have multiple teams, each with their own board, referencing a single project, each board's timeline will show only the sprints created in that board. It will not show sprints that display in the board but were created in a different board.

You would have to view the Timeline from a board that consolidated all the content of the team boards, and the shared sprints would have to be created in that consolidated board.

If you are talking about using the Timeline feature within the Advanced Roadmaps Plans, that is an entirely different function.