Automatically label tickets rolled over from previous sprint

[Chris Nemarich]

My team is trying to track when certain tickets are rolled over through multiple sprints. Is there any way to automatically add a label (e.g. `prior_sprint_carryover`) to any tickets that are moved to the next sprint when you complete the current sprint?

 

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

hi @Chris Nemarich , Welcome to the Community.

yes this is possible with Automation. Please let me know if the example below leaves you with further questions.

[Jack Brickey]

you might also consider using a smartvalue in a comment, e.g.

This issue was not completed in {{sprint.name}}.

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Chris Nemarich welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The Velocity Report displays the average amount of work a scrum team completes during a sprint. Teams can use velocity to predict how quickly they can work through the backlog because the report tracks the forecasted (commited) and completed work over the last 7 sprints. The more sprints, the more accurate the forecast.

The Sprint Report helps you to understand the work that has been completed or pushed back to the backlog or next sprint for each sprint. This helps you determine if your team is overcommitting or if there is excessive scope creep.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Chris Nemarich -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, and...to the suggestions from Dave and Jack:

What does the team plan to do with that information in the label field?  Hopefully it is to use this info as part of retrospective conversations, helping to create experiments to improve how the team works together.  Having work items carry over is not unusual.  Normalizing it by adding long-term measures could be...leading people to eventually ignore the measure and any root causes. 

Perhaps try the reports Dave suggested first and look at them during the retro (and sprint planning) to see how they help.

Kind regards,
Bill