Single Sprint for multiple projects?

[Justin]

👋🏻 Hi again Jira Pro's.

As a software development company, we have a number of projects our dev's jump around at the same time.

We work in 2 weeks Sprints.

Is it possible to have a single Sprint for multiple projects?
I'm using a single board as a project. but boards have their own sprint times/dates.

Do people just use a single board and have a custom field which could be the project name? or a tag?

[Danut M _StonikByte_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Justin,

You need a board with a filter than returns the issues from all you projects.

Once you do that, you can create a sprint and add issues from all projects to it.

If you have multiple teams, they all will have to work with this board, but you can create quick filters in the board configuration for each team, so they can activate their team filter and visualize only their issues.

Danut.    

[Justin]

Hi @Danut M _StonikByte_  - i'm a bit confused by your answer.

I thought the SPRINT was linked to the PROJECT, not a specific board. And a project can have multiple BOARDS which are just a VIEW of all the issues in the PROJECT?

I already have two PROJECTS
- Project_A

- Project_B

and in Project_A, i have created a board where I customized the filter to show all issues from both projects. (SIDE NOTE: I really hate this because this is now a board "under" project_a but is showing issues OUTSIDE of this project. Feels very smelly/hacky)

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Justin, 

No. The sprints are linked to a board, not to a project.

Each board use a Jira filter behind, and that filter returns the issues displayed by the board. By default, that filter includes only the current project, but you can change the board filter as you want, by including issues from multiple projects in your case.

Go to Board configuration > General tab to see the board's filter. 

Danut

[Justin]

Hi @Danut M _StonikByte_ 

> sprints are linked to a board, not a project

Really? I have a single project with 4 boards. I only completed a sprint and started the next, once.

all 4 boards (under this project) have the exact same sprint details - i didn't do this per board.

Checking the docs: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/tutorials/sprints

This is saying that sprints are fixed time periods for issues starting in the backlog. and a project has one backlog. 

For me, i think i'm using the Company Projects, not Team Projects? does that make a difference?

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Yeah, because if an issue from a board is also visible in the other boards (due to board filters), the sprint of that issue will become visible in the other boards.

Sprints are linked to boards. If you'll try to access the details of a sprint via REST API /rest/agile/1.0/sprint/{sprintId} - see https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-sprint/#api-rest-agile-1-0-sprint-post - you will see that the sprints have an originalBoardId field representing the board where it was created; there is no direct link to the project.

  

Danut.

[Sherwin Soriano]

Depends on how you structure your JIRA. 

You said you configure your board as a project.

1. How do you configured your board that only tickets on that project will be added?

2. I would recommend you alter your query on what tickets can be added on your board and use the epic issue type per project. This way, you can have 2 projects in 1 board.

[Justin]

Hi @Sherwin Soriano - thanks for helping.

I have two simple PROJECTS. Each has the default board that is created. So that's what I mean by saying that i have a "board as a project".

In Project_A i ended up creating a 2nd board which was then customized to show all issues from both Projects. As stated above, I think this is smelly/hacky because this project can now see issues OUTSIDE of this project. but that is the suggestion / what people keep saying todo.

None-the-less, i see sprints are tied to PROJECTS, not boards?