Run and complete a sprint

Once a sprint is active, the Sprints tab becomes the team’s daily board, and the Burndown tab shows whether the sprint is on track. This article covers the running phase and what actually happens when you complete a sprint. To set one up first, see planning a sprint.

Work the sprint board

Selecting a sprint shows its tasks as a board with five columns: To Do, In Progress, Review, Done, and Blocked. Drag a card to a new column to change its status; dropping a task in Done also sets its progress to 100%.

The toolbar lets you search the board, filter by priority or assignee, and sort each column by priority, due date, or title. Columns can be collapsed to keep the board compact, and each column header has a quick add button for capturing tasks straight into that status.

You can keep adjusting scope mid-sprint: From Backlog stays available while the sprint is active, and each card has a Move to Backlog action.

Read the burndown chart

Open the project’s Burndown tab and pick your sprint from the buttons at the top (the Project button shows the all-tasks burndown instead). The chart plots two lines:

• Actual (solid): how many tasks were still open on each day. A task burns down on the day it reaches Done.
• Ideal (dashed): a straight line from the sprint’s total task count down to zero at the end date, the pace you would need for a perfectly even sprint.

A dashed Today marker shows where you are in the sprint, and hovering any point shows the remaining count, the ideal value, and how many tasks were completed that day.

Above the chart, four stat chips summarize the same data: Done, Remaining, Velocity, and Projected. Velocity here is tasks completed per day so far, and Projected extrapolates that pace into an estimated finish date.

Tip

Burndown counts tasks, not hours or story points. If your tasks vary wildly in size, split the big ones into subtasks so the line reflects real progress.

Complete the sprint

1. Select the sprint on the Sprints tab. Active sprints show a Complete Sprint button (only an active sprint can be completed).

2. Select Complete Sprint. The sprint’s status changes to Completed.

3. Every task that did not reach Done moves back to the backlog, ready to be pulled into your next sprint. Tasks that are Done stay on the completed sprint as its permanent record.

Completed sprints stay available: enable the Completed status chip at the top of the Sprints tab to see them, and the Burndown tab keeps their charts for retrospectives.

FAQs

Do unfinished tasks disappear when I complete a sprint? No. Anything not marked Done returns to the backlog with all its details intact. From there you can pull it into the next sprint during planning.

Why can’t I complete my sprint? Only active sprints can be completed. A sprint still in Planning has nothing to close out; start it first, or delete it if it was created by mistake.

Where does the carry-over go if I already created the next sprint? Into the backlog, not the next sprint. Use the backlog’s bulk Move to sprint action to pull the carry-over into the new sprint in one step; see grooming the backlog.