Complete a sprint
This page is for company-managed projects
To check whether your project is team-managed or company-managed, select more actions (•••) next to the project name in either the header or the sidebar. At the bottom of the menu that opens, you’ll be able to view whether your project is team-managed or company-managed.
More about the difference between company-managed and team-managed projects.
To complete a sprint, you must be a Jira Administrator or a user with the Manage Sprints permission.
Before you can complete a sprint, all sub-tasks must be marked as Done. If a parent work item 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:
If not already there, navigate to your company-managed software project.
From your project’s sidebar, select Active sprints.
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.Click Complete Sprint. All completed work items will move out of Active sprints.
If the sprint has incomplete work items, select from one of the following:
Backlog, to move the work items to the backlog
Any future sprint, to move the work items to any future sprint that's already created
New sprint, to create a new sprint and then move the work items to the new sprint
Your work items won't be marked with the date the sprint was closed; however, you can always view the sprint for a work item to find out when the sprint ended.
Marking work items as complete
Work items are considered as complete once they have been moved to the last column on the board. Work items in any other column will be considered incomplete (or “open”).
When a sprint is shared between multiple boards, only work items from the board that is completing the sprint will be carried over to the future sprint or new sprint. Any incomplete work items 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.
Sprints only apply to Scrum boards. If you are using a Kanban board, check out Deploying a release instead.
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