Multiple sprints for same time period and same assignment group

[Mickey_Cegon]

The way our organization is set up, we have the need to have several Sprints per team at the same time. But, this is not allowed. Has anyone run into this and found a good solution? We've just been creating more and more assignment groups and the management of all these groups just to organize sprints is a nightmare.

Mickey Cegon

[Saroj Patel1]

 You can create different sprint for the same assignment group but not in the same ( start date & end date )

[Patrick Laroch1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The main purpose of the sprint is to manage the workload of a specific team to be able to manage these concurrent priorities. By having 1 team have multiple sprints to manage simultaneously takes away this very important benefit of using sprints(agile methodology)
I would suggest that you remain with OOTB 1 sprint per team for the team to manage its workload and use other tools to give other stakeholders the views they need (Releases, APW, Project Workbench, etc...)

Thank you,

Patrick

[Rita Barraza]

While I understand the purity of the concept, If the team can manage the points/capacity for multiple sprints, it is a serious limitation not to have multiple sprints running simultaneously.  

It creates overhead to create a  different group with the same team members to create concurrent sprints

[Adam Geil]

Hi @Rita Barraza ,

Can you elaborate on your use case? Would increasing the point capacity for the team to reflect what they are capable of accomplishing not solve this problem?