Kanbam to Scrum

[nathalia_fukuda]

Is it possible to turn a Kanban project into Scrum? I have a project in Kanban with a very complex flow, but I want to organize the items into sprints for better organization.

Is there a way to do that without changing the project flow?

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @nathalia_fukuda,

Technically, that may be fairly simple. But there is a difference if you are using company or team managed projects. Very complex flows are not very often found in team managed projects, so assuming that you are using a company managed setup, all you need to do (theoretically) is add a new board.

Navigate to Your work > Boards > View all boards and right there click Create Board. Choose a scrum board, board from existing project and link the board to your project. That should already be a big step.

After that, navigate to your new scrum board, open Board settings > Columns and map the different statuses from your workflow to board columns, adding columns as you require.

If your workflow is indeed very complex, you may come to the conclusion that your process does not fit working in sprints (maybe only work that is already analysed can be planned in a sprint). And you may find that you might need to map only part of your workflow to the scrum board. Or you may have to re-think how you came to such a complex workflow in the first place. But again, that is a different part of the challenge, not so much the technical part in your Jira configuration.

If your project is team managed, switching to scrum can be done in Project Settings > Features, where you can enable the backlog and sprints.

Hope this helps!

[nathalia_fukuda]

Thank you!!! It worked perfectly!

[Steve Long -Evelon- · Accepted solution]

Hi @nathalia_fukuda

There should be no need to convert the project as such - you can create a Scrum board in addition to your Kanban board, within the same project.

Under the boards drop down in the project, just click 'Create Board' and select Scrum when you're given the option.

Doc for ref: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/create-a-board/

Hope that helps - Steve.

[nathalia_fukuda]

tks!