How to create a new Scrum board in an existing JIRA project (having 1 board)?

Question

How to create a new Scrum board in an existing JIRA project (having 1 board)? I am able to create 2nd Scrum board but all the backlog items (both product and Sprint) got exported into new board.

When i am trying to Create a board without associating it with a project (just to avoid getting all issue exported), it doesn't allow as the project is mandatory field.

Suhas P · Answer

Make use of Components. Components are Sub units under a project. You divide project into different components. Eg. If its project is for database team, they will have different components like MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres etc.

So in your case, Project A will have two components Component B and C. Then create two filters like this (project = "A" AND Component = "B") and (project = "A" AND Component = "C").

Then create two Scrum boards with suitable names and use these filters each. Now each scrum board will show up issues only in that component.

Note: You need to select the appropriate component for each issue so they will belong to one of the component. If you don't select component that issue will not be visible of either of the board. Component/s is multi-select system field so You can have both components on a issue.

Siddharth Verma · Answer

Hi Suhas, thanks for looking into it.

Let me try to explain what I am trying to do.

We have a customer A. And we are working on 2 different projects lets say B and C for same customer.

What I want is

1. Create a Project and name it as A and

2. Create 2 scrum boards, name them as B and C under project A in JIRA.

Is this possible?

Suhas P · Answer

What you are expecting to see on the second board? Which issues?

You can create filters first and the use those filters in any scrum/kanban board. Using different filters, you can present different content/issues on two different boards.

If some issues in both board 1 are also present on board 2, then you will see sprint on both boards, even if you create that sprint at one board.