Can I display issues not assigned to a Sprint on a JIRA Agile board?

Adam John Burley

We use sprints in our team in a different way from JIRA Agile. We don't have a sprint scope per-se, a sprint is just a way to define a cut-off for our next release.

At the moment, in order to display an issue on a JIRA Agile board, we have to assign it to a Sprint. So we just have a single Sprint called "Sprint", and then assign all issues to that sprint. Unfortunately this means that if someone creates a new issue and doesn't assign that Sprint, then it doesn't appear on the board.

Of course it's possible to create a filter query which backs the board and shows only "Sprint IS EMPTY" issues, but then the board contains no issues. At the top of the board (e.g. http://jira.intranet/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=1234) it says "Active sprints", but this can't be changed. If any board contains issues across multiple active sprints, it becomes a dropdown for which the default is "All sprints", but again there is no option to select issues which are in no sprint.

Is there a way to display issues on the board which have no sprint (and then only use the filter query to match the issues to display on the board - e.g. by workflow status)?

(JIRA version in my team: v6.4.10)

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Nope, the definition of the "working" board is that the issues are in the sprint.

You could move to a Kanban board instead and simply drop all the sprint stuff completely, then the board would show everything.

Or, if you have the script runner or something similar, you should be able to write code that goes "new issue? ok, what's the current sprint, lets shove the issue into that".  This, of course, means your planning is pretty pointless and all the numbers will just show "scope creep" in your sprints, but I think that's what you're doing already.