Is there a way to manually change the sprint number?

[Matthew Lisowe]

We have two teams using two different sprint boards. We want to sync the sprint numbers so they are the same number to make planning and communicating about upcoming sprints easier. Is this possible? 

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Hi @Matthew Lisowe,

as @brbojorque said, you can obviously keep the name of the sprint manually in sync.

Another idea would be to actually really have one sprint for both teams instead of two. Sprints in Jira belong to a board and not to a project. Therefore you could create a new board which includes issues of both of your boards and create the sprints there.

Would that be an idea?

Cheers,
Matthias.

[brbojorque]

I 100% agree to this ^.

The only reason you create a parallel sprint is if you have teams who work very differently from each other.

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Unless the user have a parallel sprint for a reason.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/using-parallel-sprints-938845513.html

Please note the following caveats when using parallel sprints:

• The Velocity Chart will not show the velocity per team.

• The current implementation assumes that the teams perform estimation identically, which is unlikely in practice

[Matthew Lisowe]

the two two teams have very different workflows so it would be messy to try to combine to one sprint board. I do not have access to their board either. Having the sprint name to be same just would make communication easier. Thanks! 

[brbojorque]

Did you mean the sprint name? e.g Sprint 1 

Yes you can change it and it will just follow the incremental sprints created in the future.

If it is a Sprint Id, probably not.

[Matthew Lisowe]

yes, i meant the sprint name. One team is on spring 161 and the other team is on sprint 45. thanks for the clarification!

[brbojorque]

@Matthew Lisowe , that's perfect. 

Just create a new sprint and rename it Sprint 161.