Adding the same workitem to two different sprints in Azure DevOps

Question

How can I add the same work item to two different sprints/sprint boards?

My scenario is given below.

I have a big team that is following a longer sprint length (1-month sprint cadence for example)) and a sub-team that is trying 1-week sprints. I have done the project and team configuration (using area paths and iterations pats etc.) such that the sub-team sees only their backlog view and the big team sees the whole backlog. I can drag the work items from either one of the backlog for either one of the teams to corresponding 1-month sprint board (for the big team) or 1-week sprint board (for the sub-team).

My question is as follows:

The bigger team wants to see all the stories as part of the month-long sprint. In other words when they have standups they want to see the sub-team's 1-week sprint stories also in their sprint board for the month-long sprint. I tried to add the same story into both month-long sprint for the big team and 1-week sprint for the sub-team. But Azure DevOps cannot keep the work item in both the sprints at the same time. It you add it to month-long sprint board, it is removed from the 1-week sprint board.

How I can have the work item be added to both the sprints? Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

You can set up sub-teams and sub-sprints using Azure DevOps logic, then the work items will be automatically synchronized on the backlogs of both teams.

As shown below:

"Team 2" is a sub-team of "Case0103 Team". And "Week 1" sprint is a sub-sprint of "Iteration 1".

Then in Sprints, "Case0103 Team" can view work items of "Iteration 1".

"Team 2" can only view work items of "Week 1".

Here are the detailed steps:

1. Create a sub-team. You can click Configure a hierarchy of teams for detailed steps.

2. Create sub sprints. You need to go to Project Settings -> Boards/Project configuration, then choose your sprint and click "New child".

3. Set iteration paths. Go to Project Settings -> Boards/Team configuration -> Iterations. Select different teams by navigation bar at the top and select or remove sprints. Team members can only see sprints shown here.