Complete a sprint

Before you can complete a sprint, all sub-tasks must be marked as Done. If a parent issue is not marked as Done, it will be moved to a future sprint or to the Backlog when the sprint is completed.

Complete the sprint

Here’s how to complete a sprint in your company-managed project:

1. If not already there, navigate to your company-managed software project.

2. From your project’s sidebar, select Active sprints.

3. If necessary, select the sprint you want to complete from the sprint drop-down.
   Note that if you have multiple sprints in the Active sprints of your board, the 'Complete Sprint' button will not appear until you select one of the sprints.

4. Click Complete Sprint. All completed issues will move out of Active sprints.

5. If the sprint has incomplete issues, select from one of the following:

   • Backlog, to move the issues to the backlog

   • Any future sprint, to move the issues to any future sprint that's already created

   • New sprint, to create a new sprint and then move the issues to the new sprint

Marking issues as complete

Issues are considered as complete once they have been moved to the last column on the board. Issues in any other column will be considered incomplete (or “open”).

When a sprint is shared between multiple boards, only issues from the board that is completing the sprint will be carried over to the future sprint or new sprint. Any incomplete issues from other boards will be moved to the Backlog instead.

If you can't complete a sprint, your board's filter may be complex, and Jira is unable to determine which projects will be returned by the query. See Using Manage Sprints permission for advanced cases if you need help.