One project, multiple boards?

[Jenny]

Hi,

I am very new to Jira. I have perused the forum, but couldn't find  a definitive answer.

I have one large project that includes 2 dev teams (let's say Team A and Team B). They are working independently.

I want to be able to track their velocity separately, but still have everything on one page as I need to report up on the status on the project itself.

If I understood correctly, there are 2 ways of handling this:

- Have one board for the project, one backlog, stories have Components (Team A/B) and enable parallel sprints. Then filter per component/team.

- Have 2 boards for the project, 1 for Team A and 1 for Team B

Have I understood correctly? What are the downsides for each approach? Any other options?

Many thanks!

Jenny

[Prashant Mali · Accepted solution]

Hi Jenny,

there are some few points to discuss on parallel sprint :

• this situation would be great if both team are using same backlog
• velocity chart will not show velocity per team
• this implementation assumes that the teams perform estimation separately which is unlikely in practice. 

[Chung Park Chan]

I guess the key here is 'work independently' so I'd assume the estimation would be different. If that's the case, having different boards would be better

[Jenny]

Thank you! I asked around and indeed, 2 boards seem the way to go.

[Shelly Votava]

Hello,

I have a similar issue and would like to use two boards.

Is there a key field I could use to direct the "issue" to the correct board.

All development is going to one team.  However, I have roadmap items that are managed separately from customer development/bug fixes.

I was hoping there is a way to direct the items to the correct board just based on how the issue was set up.

I appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks!

[Shaun Parker]

Hi.

I have just found this thread. I have a question to ask if I may?

What is the best practice?

1 Project for 1 Board - keep it simple.

1 Project with multiple boards - not so simple.

We are setting up Jira Cloud and I would like to know what is the best way to configure the projects / boards.

Thanks

Shaun

[Mouli]

@Shaun Parker you may find these helpful for 1 proj multiple boards.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Multiple-Backlogs-For-Multiple-Teams-In-One-Project-Separation/qaq-p/215938

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/1-project-with-multiple-boards-1-independent-sprint-and-sprint/qaq-p/46378

[James A Rosen]

One of the problems with one-project-per-board is that it makes it difficult for management to get visibility across teams.

There’s no way to build a cross-team velocity widget in a Jira dashboard. There’s also no way to export velocity data from Jira. So the only way to see velocity across N teams is to build a dashboard with N velocity widgets.