Good day!
We have multiple Departments (Software, Hardware, Mechanical, QA, etc.) and multiple Products. Currently, each department has its own Jira Project that contains tasking for all of the Products and each Department only runs one (1) Sprint at a time that contains the tasking for all of the Products. The Department Sprints each have their own Sprint start/end dates and they also have different durations as we don't want to all of the Department's Sprint planning to have to happen at the same time. This makes it easier for planning but completely cuts off cross-Department collaboration. It also makes it difficult for the different Program Managers to get Product information. We tried to use Components but it got really out of hand to a point of uselessness and was very prone to error.
What I want to do is create separate Jira projects for each Product with all the team members of all the Departments. Team members would be differentiated by a Team dropdown field for easy board configuration and management. This would make it easy to filter by Team (Department) to give us a board exactly like we have now.
Overall, what I think my idea means is that each Product Jira Project will be running parallel sprints (one per Department/Team) that are not running at the same time. The only examples of parallel Sprints that I have seen have all the Sprints starting/ending at the same time, We don't want to do this because it's just too much effort to plan for all the Departments at the same time.
1. Can a Jira project run parallel Sprints with different Start/End/Durations?
2. Any issues with creating a Scrum board to manage Sprints this way?
3. Is there a better and/or more stable way to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
