Jira Backlog Board Sync [ART]

Scenario 1: One project in Jira which holds all Features

If you have all your SAFe Features in one Jira project, the configuration is very easy:

1. Create or edit a PI Planning session

2. Go to the step "Program Backlog Board"

3. For the Sticky Type of your choice, select the "Jira project"

4. Wait until all "Jira Issue Types" are loaded and select the Issue Type you want to sync

Open

Scenario 2: Features are in multiple Projects in Jira

In the case you have your SAFe Features in multiple Jira projects, you have to create multiple Sticky Type to display them all in the app:

1. Create or edit a piplanning session

2. Go to the step "Program Backlog Board"

3. For each Jira project, create a new Sticky Type:

   1. Select the Jira project

   2. Select the Jira Issue Type

Open

Filter by Jira Fields

You may not want to have all the Jira issues of a project on the piplanning Backlog board. In that case, you can choose to only sync issues that have a specific value for a given field. For example, you could give the issues a label (eg. “PI6”) or Fix Version (eg. “1.12”).

The following field types may be used to filter session backlog items:

• Labels

• Versions

• Components

• Single-select (customfield)

• Multi-select (customfield)

In the example above, only Epics out of the "ProgramBacklog" Jira Project with the label "PI6" AND Fix Version “1.12” will be displayed on the backlog-board.

Ranking

The stickies on the Backlog Board are ranked by the value on the bottom right of the Sticky. SAFe® uses WSJF for prioritization.

You can rank them by any numeric field, which is available on the Jira issue screen of your synced Issue Type.

Team field synchronization