One Product Backlog with multiple SCRUM teams

Question

Does anyone have a suggestion for managing the following:

One product backlog

2 Boards - each for one SCRUM team

How can I have sprints running for each board pulling the items from one central backlog?

Thank you for your assistance!

Matt Cox · Answer

I have one project with 3 teams working on the same project (same codebase). I've set up a custom field to store the scrum team and the board filters (separate boards for each team) use this field to only show issues associated with this team.

All of our issues roll up to Epics, so, to automate things, the Epics are assigned to specific teams, and I have a few Jira automations that set the 'team' custom field correctly based on the parent Epic. I also have a couple of automations that make sure sub-tasks are assigned to the correct team when created.

This is all working well so far. But make sure you create automation rules for create and update scenarios (e.g. if an Epic is moved to a different team, the 'team' field for all child issues needs to be updated).

Dave Markowski · Answer

Teams really seem to be the way to go on this one.  Having 4 teams in a single backlog without it is starting to get a bit overwhelming

Paweł Stelmach_4kd4p0 · Answer

Hi Luis,

check if your task have both components.

If a task has both, then it is picked up by both filters (each board); if it is in a specific sprint, then it will show with that sprint as well;

so the way to do this is to have only one component per task, or share sprints among teams (though you'd have to start and close them together then);

there might be also some other edge cases - but I don't have enough info to support; the one I described is a typical mistake I've noticed;

BTW - I've been working with this setup for 6+ months and it works very well; I actually prefer it to the "separate teams = separate projects" approach