YouTrack Server
 

Manage Multiple Projects

Last modified: 07 February 2025

Product Marketing Managers at JetBrains interact with multiple operational teams. Their work requires engagement with product development, design, developer advocates, web development, internet marketing, and research. As a result, they track tasks related to one activity in multiple projects.

Managing issues in multiple projects can be tricky, especially when each project team follows its own working process. The marketing managers for YouTrack and Hub use an agile board to resolve these inconsistencies.

Here's what their board looks like in our YouTrack installation:

Multi project board

Their board supports the following behavior:

  • Columns are identified by values from the State field. Many of the projects on the board have their own set of values for this field. Similar states are merged into a single column.

  • Swimlanes are identified by issues of various types from different projects.

  • Issues from any of the projects that are managed on the board can be shown as cards.

Our marketing managers have experimented with sprints that last for one quarter, one month, and two months. You can also opt to disable sprints completely and follow a Kanban-style process.

This type of board can be useful for any cross-functional team.