Reopening a Sprint

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Overview

Jira lets you reopen sprints that have been previously closed. This is a handy feature when:

• You've mistakenly completed the wrong sprint.
• You completed the correct sprint, but you completed it too early.

Moreover, sprints that are mistakenly closed or closed too early will affect your team's velocity, as the data in these sprints will still be included in your board. Your Velocity Chart will then be reflecting inaccurate data.

To reopen a sprint, you must be logged in as a user with the Jira administrator permissions or a user with the manage sprints permission. For details, see Permissions overview.

Reopening a sprint

Navigate to your desired board.

Select Reports, and then select Sprint Report.

Select the relevant sprint from the sprint drop-down

Select Reopen Sprint. The Reopen Sprint dialog will be displayed, showing you the outcome you can expect when the sprint is reopened.

Select Reopen.

Note the following details that take place when a sprint is completed then reopened:

• When you complete a sprint, this event of completing the sprint will be recorded in the corresponding Sprint Report.
• When you reopen that sprint, this event of reopening the sprint will also be recorded in the Sprint Report. However, the report will now use the new end date moving forward.
• When the reopened sprint is completed, the last completion date will appear as the end date in the Sprint Report.