Scrum board and Kanban board with independent issues

[Magnus Bakke]

I remember vaguely from a previous job that it was possible to have the following setup (I could be wrong):

Note that there is only one page in question. Both boards are visible on the same page, and you are able to drag an issue from one "board" to the other.

One section of the page shows a Kanban board with some collection of columns. Another section of the page (below the first section) shows a Scrum board with some other collection of columns. The result is that developers are able to view the status of issues that are not part of a sprint. In other words, you can do work on issues that are not at all related to any sprint, and see the status of those issues independently of the current sprint. For example, you might have a big backlog, and some of the issues in the backlog are not selected for the sprint, but those issues can still be worked on and have a status.

I remember being able to work on an issue that is not part of the current sprint, and still see the progress of that issue on the same screen as the sprint overview (in a separate collection of columns) on the same screen/page.

Is this a classic thing, or is it still possible? Am I wrong in saying that this was ever possible?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Jira itself only displays one board at a time.

So I suspect there was some other software in play drawing in the two board displays separately, or possibly an app that did a two-board display of some sort (I've not seen one of these myself, but that doesn't mean there isn't one). 

The ability to drag from one board to another does not sound right though - boards are not containers for issues, they are a selection that gets displayed, and issues do not "move" between boards.  To make it look like they do, you would have to have code that understands what makes an issue be selected in each board, and can know how to change an issue such that it stops being selected by the first board and starts being selected by the second.  Which is not easy to do.

So I'm a bit stuck on this one.

[Magnus Bakke]

I honestly have no idea how they achieved the setup they had. I'm probably fuzzy on a few key details. I'll see if my ex employer can shed some light on their setup. I appreciate the effort. Have a good day!