Switching from a Kanban board to a Sprint

[Liz]

We have a Kanban board set up for an existing Managed Services project. The tasks would be easier to manage as Sprints, so we now want to change from a Kanban board to a Scrum board.

Does anyone have any idea how we do this? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Create a Scrum board and point it at your project.

The boards are technically independent of the project and each other, so you can use many boards that view the same range of issues in different ways.

[Liz]

Thanks Nic. At the moment, it's not giving me an option to create a scrum board under this project. It is only giving me a Kanban option. I think when the project was set up it was set up as Software with Kanban task board, and there is also an option when creating a new project to choose Software scrum task management - just not sure how I change this under an existing project.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, you don't do it from the project - try "boards -> create board", select "Scrum" as the type and "create from project"

[Liz]

Perfect! Done. Thanks Nic :)

[Veronica Caceres]

Hi!! quick question related to this, I could create the scrum board, but I do not have the CTA to create sprints? what could had happened? we are working on Client's Jira, maybe we do not have permissions? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, you now need the "manage sprint" permission, in every project the board includes.

[samantha@polymath.network]

I don't see a way to create boards...

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Cloud or server?  Do you have Software installed?

[samantha@polymath.network]

Cloud. Thanks, Nic, I figured it out. I found a way to create a new board which was very unintuitive.

[Agile Vectors]

Will you please let us know the steps that you figured out to create new board?

[Yugank Bhatnagar]

I believe tthat you cannot change an existing kanban board to Scrum Board. But you can create new Scrum board keeping your existing Kanban board. Also, you need to define your objectives before you go ahead of creating another borad-Scrum. If your work involves defining the work items as stories for example and delivering the work in short sprints/iterations and your team wish to track and manage work progress over period of time then it is great to have Scrum board as it also comes with lot more reporting options as compared to Kanban. But if your work is continuous in nature as in the case of many QA teams where they have to continuously test the resolved defcets or even in UAT team where they have to keep picking up QA passed defects, Kanban should be fine.

Thanks

Please accept the answer if it works for you !

[Liz]

Thanks Yugank :)

[Tarun Sapra]

You can't *modify* an existing kanban board into a scrum board. Rather create a new Scrum board based on the same filter which is being used by the Kanban board and start managing the backlog and creating sprints.

[Liz]

Thanks Tarun. All sorted.