Using both Kanban & Sprint boards for one project, more efficiently?

[Ari Smith]

My team likes using our Kanban board, and prefers it to the Scrum/Sprint board, but we want a way to track our work and see how much work we've completed in certain time periods (cough, like a sprint report). 

I created a Sprint board under our project, and that's great, but I'm wondering if there are some ways I can streamline the work. For example, is there a way to have it to all issues/tickets that are active in the Kanban automatically get put into the sprint? Or do I have to manage each board separately/manually? Is there a way to sync the boards so that the same columns in my Kanban board are reflected in the Sprint board? Or do I also need to set up the Sprint columns manually/separately? OR is there a better way that I'm not thinking of? 

Any advice/tips on using Kanban & Sprint boards for one project would be greatly appreciated!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ari Smith   Welcome to the community!

Reading your post, it seems the problem you are are trying to solve: what is my Kanban team's work completion rate (velocity or throughput), like I would see on a Scrum report.

Is that correct?

If so, you don't need to put your work on two boards, Scrum and Kanban.  Instead, you could do the following:

• Review the cumulative flow diagram for the Kanban board.  The slope of the completed/done area is the velocity of the team.  Set your time range as you desired.
• Create a dashboard to build a velocity bar chart, by week, for the team.

Best regards,

Bill

[Ari Smith]

Great, thanks Bill we will try that.