Simplifying Sprint Planning in Jira with AI

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Sprint planning is one of the most critical and time-consuming parts of agile delivery. Balancing priorities, estimates, dependencies, and team capacity often requires multiple meetings and manual adjustments.

Smart AI for Jira introduces Sprint Planning Assistant, an AI-powered capability designed to help teams create realistic and balanced sprint plans directly from their Jira backlog.

Sprint Planning Assistant

The AI Sprint Planning Assistant analyzes your Jira backlog and automatically generates sprint plans based on real project data.

It supports teams by:

• Grouping related work items intelligently

• Suggesting issue types, priorities, and estimates

• Balancing workload across one or multiple sprints

• Creating realistic sprint plans aligned with delivery capacity

This allows teams to start sprint planning with a structured, data-driven proposal instead of building plans manually from scratch.

Interactive Sprint Review

Sprint plans should remain transparent and adjustable. Smart AI for Jira provides an interactive sprint review experience before anything is created in Jira.

Teams can:

• Review AI-generated sprints in a clean and expandable interface

• Inspect individual tickets and suggested estimates

• Validate priorities and scope

• Adjust sprint plans before execution

This ensures teams remain in full control while reducing planning effort.

Seamless Jira Integration

After reviewing and approving the sprint plan, Smart AI for Jira integrates directly with Jira to apply the plan.

With a few clicks, teams can:

• Create Jira sprints automatically

• Add all associated issues to the correct sprints

• Maintain alignment with existing Jira configuration

No manual recreation or duplication is required.

Designed for Agile Teams and Leaders

Sprint Planning Assistant supports:

• Product Owners preparing balanced sprint scopes

• Scrum Masters facilitating more efficient sprint planning sessions

• Project Managers aligning delivery timelines and priorities

• Engineering leaders improving predictability and team focus

By reducing planning overhead, teams can spend more time delivering value.

From Backlog to Sprint

Traditional sprint planning often takes significant time and still leaves room for imbalance or missed dependencies.

With Smart AI for Jira, teams can generate sprint plans automatically, review and adjust them, and execute directly in Jira.

The result is faster planning, clearer scope, and more predictable delivery.

Feedback and real-world experiences from the Atlassian Community are welcome.