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Sprint in Jira

Priya Pedamkar
Article byPriya Pedamkar

Updated March 28, 2023

Sprint in Jira

Definition of Sprint in Jira

Sprint in JIRA is nothing but collections of tasks or issues for a software application, the team should be works on to complete within a specific period of time. The tasks or issues inside the sprint from the project or product backlog with the duration for each sprint usually one or two or four weeks long as per the size of requirement/issue/task and the sprint duration decided by both the team & the product owner (PO). As the sprint will complete than the version of the built will be ready and we start the next sprint.

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How to Create Sprint in Jira?

There are some following steps to create a sprint in JIRA, so according to that, the team will work on it to complete the sprint within sprint duration. Such are:

Step 1: Click on the “Backlog” option showing in the JIRA dashboard for your project.

Step 2: Click on the “Create Sprint” button to create a sprint.

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Step 3: Adding the issues or tasks or stories to your sprint by navigating from backlog or by using drag & drop issues or tasks from backlog to your sprint.

Step 4: Then the sprint will be created in JIRA for the software application.

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How to Start Sprint in Jira?

There are following steps involves starting a sprint in the JIRA tool to complete the tasks or issues regarding the software development. Such are:

Step 1: Click on the “Backlog” option showing in the JIRA dashboard for your project.

Step 2: Find the required sprint to start and click on the “Start Sprint” button.

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Step 3: Update the respective fields like the name of the sprint, duration of the sprint, start date, end date and sprint goal for the given sprint with appropriate data.

Step 4: Click on the “Start” button.

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Step 5: Then the Sprint will be started successfully and we also track the team’s progress on that sprint.

How to End Sprint in Jira?

There are some following steps to ending the Sprint in the JIRA tool to ensure the completeness of the active sprint or to develop the initial version of the software application. Such are:

Step 1: Go to the JIRA backlog dashboard.

Step 2: Click on the “Active Sprints” tab to shows all the sprints related to the software application.

Step 3: Select the particular sprint which is want to complete or end the sprint.

Step 4: Click on the “Complete Sprint” button to end the sprint as all the completed Issues or tasks regarding the sprint are removed. The initial stage will be TO BE, then IN PROGRESS and finally in the DONE stage.

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Step 5: The sprint will be END if the task or issue in the DONE stage.

Step 6: For the given sprint, if any incomplete task or issue, then, you will move the incomplete task back to the backlog or any further sprint or to create a new sprint for it.

How to Add Issues in Sprint?

These are the following procedures for adding an Issue or task to the particular sprint, which are:

Step 1: Navigate to the “Backlog” tab on the JIRA dashboard.

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Step 2: To do drag & drop operation on issues that want to be added from backlog to your sprint or in a second way to right-click on issues in a backlog and select the appropriate sprint where we want to add it.

Step 3: Then the particular task or issue will be added to the respective sprint.

How to Remove Issues in Sprint?

The below steps are followed to remove an issue or task from the sprint, such are:

Step 1: Navigate to the “Backlog” tab on the JIRA dashboard.

Step 2: To do drag & drop operation on issues that want to be removed from sprint to backlog.

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Step 3: Then the issues or tasks are moved from the sprint to the backlog list.

Advantages of Using Sprint in Jira

  • It makes the software project more manageable.
  • It allows the teams to work faster and produce a high-quality software product.
  • It provides more flexibility to welcome change.
  • It provides the product goal.
  • It manages the growth of software projects.
  • It tracks the software application in terms of growth and teams also.
  • It provides continuous learning and improvement.
  • It is used to create, adding, starting, adding, deleting and editing of backlogs for the software application.
  • It generates the initial version of the application.
  • It helps work with multiple projects with different sprints.

Conclusion

In this above article, we briefly discuss the sprint in the JIRA tool. It also describes how to create the sprint, how to start the sprint and end the sprint, and adding or removing of issues to the sprint in the JIRA tool. By using Sprint in JIRA we also perform editing the issues and deleting of issues or sprint. Finally, the sprint in the JIRA tool is a fundamental way to develop a software application by considering the backlogs for the application.

Recommended Articles

This is a guide to Sprint in Jira. Here we discuss the Introduction and how to create, start, end and remove sprint in Jira along with advantages. You may also have a look at the following articles to learn more –

  1. JIRA Bug Life Cycle
  2. Jira Epic
  3. Jira Scrum Board
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