Schedule work items in your plan according to sprints
This page refers to the advanced planning features that are only available as part of Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise.
Sprints can only be used by Scrum teams.
Along with scheduling work items by releases or set dates, you can schedule work items based on the sprint to which it’s assigned.
On your Program board
Once you add sprints to your program board, drag work items to a team’s sprint column to automatically assign it to that sprint.
On your timeline
To schedule work items according to sprints on your timeline, you first need to set your plan to use the dates of the sprints for work items. To do this:
Next to your plan’s name in the sidebar, select More actions (•••), then Plan settings.
In the Scheduling tab under the Inferred dates section, choose which dates you’d like your plan to auto-populate when work items don’t have start and end dates. Choose from:
None
Sprint dates
For work items that are part of a team-managed project, sprints must be enabled in that project. Find out how to enable sprints in team-managed projects.
Release dates
Once configured, assign work items to a sprint and team and remove any manually-set dates. The values in the start and end column in the date fields section will have the sprint lozenge S next to them, and the length of the schedule bar in your timeline is based on the sprint’s dates. You can change a work item’s dates manually, but your plan generates a warning if the new dates fall outside that of the sprint.
When a sprint is completed, it will appear as finished on the last day. This prevents sprints from overlapping on the timeline and applies whether your work items are scheduled manually or through sprint assignment.
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