Create a board with simple stories linked to dev tasks

[Akim Boukhelif]

Hello everyone,

I want to create a board or a project in Jira that would show main features (for example by using tasks/stories on Jira Work Management) matching our product roadmap, and connect it to a Jira SW project/board we're currently using for dev work, so I can our product owner can create simple user stories or tasks, and I keep traceability between product features and dev work.

My idea would be:

1. Create a Kanban board in JWM
2. Create an Epic matching synched with current dev sprint number (e.g. sprint 1)
3. Create story/task in Epic with acceptance criteria
4. Add simple workflow e.g. to do/in progress/ready to test/done

I was wondering if someone had any experience doing this. Of course, I'm open to ideas if anyone found something simpler :-)

Thanks,

Akim

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Akim Boukhelif 

Is there a reason that you would not do all of this simply in a Jira Software project, using Epics to track the main features and creating stories/tasks under those Epics for the development work, managed in sprints?

[Akim Boukhelif]

I guess I could, the only reason I see is that JSW has so many features & options, it's a bit of an overkill for what we want to do. It's great when you need to design, build and test.
I'd rather use a simpler version of Jira like JWM.
In addition, we're currently using Epic as "containers" for dev work mainly (e.g. "frontend") so changing now for tracking features status would mess up all the devs set up. 

[Trudy Claspill]

Thank you for that additional information.

You mentioned that you want to "connect" the Work Management project to the Software project. Can you expand on what you want to accomplish with that? 

What functionality are you wanting that connection to give you, in either the Work Management project or the Software project?

[Akim Boukhelif]

Thanks for following up @Trudy Claspill.
I'd like to create user requirements separate from other requirements, so I'd keep user requirements in a JWM project, as tasks for example, and ingest them into a Scrum board in JSW where I will keep track of functional and NFR.

That way, our product owner only needs to maintain a JWM project where he's the only one to contribute, and it would be less messy for him.

I hope that makes sense, let me know if this is not the case.