Can't create specific next sprint in jira

[Sergey Saiyan]

We have two projects in Jira, A and B.

We use project A for task backlog and scrum sprints.
We use project B as a global product roadmap, there's always 1 active sprint in it.
Projects have different workflows.

Now, when I try to create next sprint on project A backlog screen, it creates next sprint for a project B. I could not find a way to create sprint for project A.

P.S. I would like to separate these 2 projects, we don't need their tasks to appear on the same board and don't need a dropdown with project selection. It would be enough to access these 2 projects by different urls

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

Hi Sergey,

Sprints are able to contain issues from different projects.   There is a common confusion around this idea, because many times users can create a new sprint and get the impression that the sprint name is incorrect or duplicated to a board where they did not intend it to appear.

There are a few different ways this can happen.  One is outlined by Alexey above, where the filters in use on the different boards might pull in one or more issues from that sprint.  When that happens, the sprint can appear on that board.

Would you mind sharing with us the JQL filter that is in use on both Board A and Board B?

There is also another way in which sprints can suddenly appear to a board you might not expect.  This can happen when an issue exists in project A, Board A, and sprint A is then suddenly moved to Project B without first clearly the sprint field.

When this happens, that sprint will also appear on Board B (if it now would be included by the board filter).  This is actually by design.   There is a more detailed write up about this in the KB Sprints shared between multiple boards  The gist is that sprints were made to be able to include issues from other projects as a way to avoid having to duplicate issues between projects, just to track work on them.

But I understand the confusion that happens here.   Lots of Jira Software/Agile users prefer to only see those sprints within the same project.

Please let me know if this helps.

Andy

[Sergey Saiyan]

Hi. Thanks for emphasising the JQL filter - it contained only "ORDER BY" statement. I added project condition to it, now project B is not included to this board and when I create new sprint, it creates sprint in project A. Nice job.

P.S. The relations between sprints, projects and boards is a complicated topic, I didn't understood it completely and can't tell my opinion. As a user, I only want simple scenarios to work.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Sprints do not belong to boards. If an issue is present in two boards and this issues is included in a sprint, then you will see this sprint on both boards.

[Sergey Saiyan]

> If an issue is present in two boards

I see sprint dropdown in project A with active sprints from project A and project B.
In project B there's no such thing.

All issues have either sprints from project A or from project B. They do not intersect.