Managing Multiple Project

[Ritu John]

We are a small team and have been using Jira for the last 4 years. Until now, we were focused on one project so managing the Jira board was easy and simple. Now, we have multiple projects and want to know whats the best practice in managing the Jira board? Is it better to have one single board for each project or one board for each project as we will be working on multiple projects in a sprint?

[Tony Rossiter]

@Ritu John 

I would recommend using Jira boards to group related work.  If your multiple projects (or a subset of them) feed work into the same work effort and/or team, you can expand the scope of the board by adding the new project issues to the board filter; if not and they are all unrelated work items or don't cause resource constraint issues on each other, it's probably best to keep them separate.  

[Ritu John]

Thanks Tony,

The Development team uses the Jira board and from my understanding of what you said, if Project A and Project B have similar modules, we can link them up if not make it a separate board. Then the question arises if we have to work on both the projects simultaneous in a scrum i.e 2 weeks, how do we go about? Will the developers have to keep switching between boards.

Thanks,

Ritu

[Scott Theus]

Hi @Ritu John ,

I wrote an article about this not too long ago, you can find it here: 

Managing Multiple Projects in a Single Board or…One Scrum to Rule Them All 

Let me know if you have questions.

-Scott

[Ritu John]

Hello @Tony Rossiter ,

Scrum of scrum method is used for managing multiple projects by a different team, managed by an SM or project manager.  Ours is just one team- the development team that has to switch between two or three projects at a given sprint.

Eg. If we are working on two projects say Project A and Project B at the same time and the jobs are divided among developers, is having a common board is more productive or separating into two different boards works better? 

Your feedback is appreciated.

-Ritu