How to restrict users from moving Issues to active Sprints?

[Yakov Melman]

Hello,

We'd like to create a project role. So, only users in this role should be able to move Issues to active sprints (or at least to any other sprint). And users, who are not in this role, can't move Issues to the current sprints (or to other sprints). How we can do that?

Thank you in advance.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Yakov Melman 

I do not believe there is a built-in permission to manage who can assign issues to a sprint, although there are permissions for all add/edit of issues.

In my experience, this seems like a training/behavior issue for the team, and so making Jira "police" the behavior may not help.  Instead an unintended consequence could be that people do work that is not tracked during the sprint.

Perhaps have a conversation with the team, product owner, and coach/scrum master to discuss why using their sprint plan is valuable, and under what conditions could things be added to the sprint scope.  For example, when a team has production support responsibilities and is trying to use scrum, they may agree to add a defect/prod support item.  

It is possible to track changes to sprint scope using the built-in reports and the daily scrum (stand-up); perhaps see how those help to improve the team behavior and effectiveness.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Craig Nodwell]

Hi @Yakov Melman

Yes there is a permission for that.  Manage Sprints.

Here's a page for your reference.

[Trudy Claspill]

@Craig Nodwell 

Manage Sprints permission does not govern the addition or removal of issues from sprints.

The Schedule Issue and Edit Issue permissions are needed to add/remove issues to/from sprints, and that applies to all sprints. Refer to

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/how-do-jira-permissions-work/

[Alex Ortiz]

@Trudy Claspill thank for this reference!  I learned a lot from this post. I knew that that the manage sprint permission allows you to create/start/stop sprints, but I realized that the schedule issue permission will prevent you from adding issues to a Sprint.  Thanks for sharing! 

[Melissa Chen]

thank you so much @Trudy Claspill I assumed it was "manage sprints" and spent way longer then I care to admit refreshing the screen.