Centralized Sprint Management

Krishna P G

I have a project named Demo, within which I’ve created five Scrum boards, each representing a different Scrum team. All teams are expected to follow a common sprint cycle at all times.

Objective:
When I create sprints in the Demo Scrum Board, I want those sprints to be automatically visible in each of the individual team boards, even if no work items (e.g., Stories) are assigned to those sprints yet.

Observation:
Based on my exploration, sprints created in the Demo Scrum Board do not appear in the individual team boards unless at least one issue is explicitly assigned to each sprint in each board.

Could you please advise if there’s a more effective way to achieve this objective?

John Elder

This has been my experience also, with similarly sized projects.  The main "Scrum" board is where all sprints are created, started, and stopped, and the team boards only have the Sprints display when issues assigned to that team are present within one of the sprints.  My teams do Sprint Planning 1 based off the main Scrum board, then do Sprint Planning 2 and daily sprint management via their team boards.  There is no backlog management done on the team boards, themselves.

In the case where I need backlogs to be separate by team, I allow those teams to create, start, stop sprints on their individual team boards.

You are definitely not wrong, but I don't know a way specifically around it.