With its scrum and kanban type of projects, Zoho Sprints is equipped with many collaboration tools and capabilities that help teams effectively manage their individual projects. But, organizations often need the ability to work across projects to achieve long term, organization-level goals that propel the business forward and enable cross-disciplinary teams to participate in each other's endeavors for heightened scrutiny and better feedback.

Here are a few facilities in Zoho Sprints for enhanced cross-project collaboration:

Let's observe how to employ these facilities effectively.

Share work items with other projects or with users of other projects to widen the circle of participants without duplication of tasks. This improves knowledge transfer, promotes shared responsibility, and diminishes the blind spots of cross-project dependencies.

Pro tip: The UI design team that is revamping the layout of Upgrade screens in the app can share those work items that could impact existing UI with the concerned developers. This will keep the latter informed of foreseeable changes and workload.

Create relationships between items across projects using the link work item capability. The default link types enable tracking of work items distributed across projects that are related through duplication, dependencies, or similarities.

Pro tip: Use the "Depends on" link type when the progress of an item in one project depends on the completion of an item in another project. The dependency allows both the teams to track progress of both items and ensure the dependency is managed.

Collect and manage data that is unique to your business in a unified interface. Use global custom module to craft a module from scratch to meet your requirements to gather and manage data across projects.

Pro tip: If your organization has multiple agile teams working towards the launch of a new product, global custom module would be a great way to present shared KPIs, show stoppers, and compliance guidelines across projects.

Global view is a well-curated collection of data across projects in your Zoho Sprints workspace. It is a structured library of project information categorized based on several default specifications accessible through in-built views.

Amplify the scope of interaction between different teams through custom views shared to different combinations of audiences with varied levels of functions. The custom criteria builder facilitates precision of data through defined conditions.

Pro tip: A support team can share a custom view filtered by bugs submitted through support tickets with members of different development teams. This keeps all the teams aligned on fixes for bugs reported by customers.

To get in-depth knowledge on each feature, use the help page links below:

Explore these options to fine tune your project management efforts and achieve uniform and thorough results across projects.

If your agile team already employs any of these capabilities for cross-project collaboration, please let us know in the comments for the benefit of fellow sprints users.

Thanks,

Zoho Sprints Team