How can I use both Kanaban and Scrum boards for one Plan?

[Jennifer Baum]

Our current Jira structure may not be the best way, but its what I inherited and need to keep it until the project ends.

Here is the setup, we have a large project.  Within that project we have 2 different plans. I am am only asking about how to modify one of these plans within the larger project.

We want to try to modify how we do our work and manage it in Jira.  We want to have 2 4 week development cycle.  1 week working Kanban primarily to address bugs/tech debt then a 2 week Scrum sprint doing feature work and ending with 1 week of Kanban to address bugs/improvements.  Its been decided so not looking for feedback on why this is a good/bad idea.

My question is, how can I do this easily in Jira.  I would like to have a way for developers to see a list of bugs/tasks to address in week 1 while then using the scrum board for the 2 weeks of feature development, then a view back to the list of bugs/tasks.

Is there a way I can do this?  Do I need to just have 2 boards setup and we keep switching between them depending on the week?  I realize this might be unconventional but I am looking for any advice on how to make it simple for teams to see what they need to work on depending on the week.

[Ste Wright · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jennifer Baum 

If you're using both Kanban and Scrum, you'll need to have two separate Boards.

You'll need to use a Company-managed Project to make this work - then I'd also recommend having different Issue Types depending on the type of work (i.e Bugs, Tasks, Feature Development (Stories?)).

You can then set the Board Filters to show the different types of work on the different Boards, and avoid them being on both Boards concurrently, which might become confusing.

Do you think this would work in your scenario?

Ste

[Jennifer Baum]

Yes, I think this should work.  Thank you.