Features spanning multiple sprints in Azure Devops

Question

I'm trying to organize the work for my team in Azure Devops and have started to break down my work into the work item types provided: Epics, Features and Backlog Items. My understanding is that the Features are a collection of related stories that don't necessarily fit into a single sprint, that is they are a portfolio management thing (a folder).

When I create a Plan I can choose to display Features, but I can only have a feature assigned to a single sprint at any one time. How can I get features showing in a Plan across multiple sprints?

Answer 1

I'm not sure there's a "right" way to do this, but I personally would assign Features to the last sprint in which all User Stories will be delivered. Likewise I would do the same between Epics and Features.

Features and Epics are expected to be completed over multiple sprints, so the notion of using a sprint assignment to show when they're going to be "worked on" (like a User Story) is really replaced by when all components of that feature will be delivered. That's how I'm using them anyway.

Answer 2

If you set the start and end dates of the feature, it will span across multiple sprints.