Parallel sprints

[Cristina - Elena Andrei]

Hi,

I would like to know what means "parallel sprints". And how I can do parallel sprints?

I am using a data center instance -Jira.

From what i know, when you have an open sprint, you cannot have another open in the same time.First you first sprint 1, after that you open sprint 2.

Could sameone make me understand  about parallel sprints? Thank you!

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi @Cristina - Elena Andrei 

Parallel sprint is a feature that allow you to start multiple Sprints in a Scrum Board. By default you have to close the Sprint before starting a new one, it's not the case if you enable this option.

It has to be enable for everyone or for none as it's at the instance level.

You can enable it via the admin > Applications > JIRA Software Configuration > Check Parallel Sprints.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/using-parallel-sprints-938845513.html

Regards

[Cristina - Elena Andrei]

@Florian Bonniec

thank you for your answer. 

[Edward Nelson]

Hi, I have a unique requirement and wonder if parallel sprints would address.

I have three teams in different backlogs.

One team supports infrastructure needs of the other 2 app teams. Infra team also has their own non-app related backlog of tickets as well.

I want to have the 2 app teams create stories or subtasks to be worked on by the infrastructure team in their projects..

Infra people attend and report their status in the app team ceremonies.

The lead eng for the infrastructure team wants to see the tickets from the other two projects on his infra board.

The teams start and end sprints on 3 different days of the week with the infra team being last (Tues, Wed, and Thurs) every two weeks.

By using  a custom field designed for the infra team (App Project radio button) I can pull in the app ticket on the infra board with the filter.

The Problem: Since the app team's sprints start before the Infra sprint, I can't seem to move the Infra sprint(in the infra backlog) to the top to be able to start the sprint.

Would Parallel Sprints help in this case?