Optimal Jira Configuration for one scrum team, multiple platforms

[Joe Spadoni]

I have searched the Community articles and can't seem to get a great answer for this. 

I recently adopted a product and formed one scrum team to develop in multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Server).   We just started regular sprints and it is difficult to manage multiple backlogs feeding one sprint.  Is it better to:

1. Move things to one project and use Components(?) to segregate platforms?
2. Keep separate projects and pull the priority items from each into the sprint and view and manage them some other way?

The platforms are on different release cycles.

[Scott Theus · Accepted solution]

Hi @Joe Spadoni,

There are, as you've guessed, a number of ways to handle this, at the highest level you'd either have one project with different components or multiple projects under a single program.

Since you have one scrum team that works one sprint at a time I suggest using one project with either Components or Releases..see  Configuring Versions in a Scrum Project  and Deploying a Release.

I like Release better, since as your team works  through your sprints you can monitor the progress using the Release Burndown Chart.  Meanwhile, your sprint burndown will let you keep tabs on each sprint. 

Hope this helps, 

-Scott

[Joe Spadoni]

Thank you Scott.  I prefer the one project approach so will give it a try.  Using releases to differentiate issues.  Since release is visible on issues in the backlog without clicking into them.