In Jira Align, ADO Stories (PBIs) lose their Parent Feature when assigned to a new Sprint (Iteration Path)

Summary

When changing ADO stories (PBIs) to a new sprint, check the timebox (Release/PI) of the parent Feature. If the new sprint is not in the same timebox, synchronization will not occur.

Environment

Jira Align

Diagnosis

Moving ADO stories (PBIs) to a new sprint has their JA counterpart lose the parent Feature

Cause

In ADO: The child story was moved from Sprint 1.5 into Sprint 2.1.

In JA: The parent feature was still in PI 1.

Changing the Story's Sprint in ADO will not put the Story into a new Feature in JA so the change of sprint causes a misaligned Story, which Jira Align sees as being in the wrong PI, so won't set the Sprint.

Solution

To avoid this issue in with moving stories between sprints in different PIs in ADO, the correct order of events is

1. In ADO Put the Story in a Feature that is in PI-2 first.

2. Then change the ADO Iteration Path.

These steps should then result in the story replicating correctly over to Jira Align.