Not allowing a sprint to start when we don’t have story points on all stories/bugs

[bharathkumar.kadduri]

How can we update this condition on the Scrum board backlog page, Not allowing a sprint to start when we don’t have story points on all stories/bugs?

means we want to apply one condition without story points, we can't allow the start of the Sprint button.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @bharathkumar.kadduri 

You can't at this point - there's no native way of stopping a Sprint from starting based on conditional behaviours.

Options include...

1. Limit the ability for users to include an issue in a Sprint which isn't estimated
2. Look for an App which might be able to script this - eg. Scriptrunner (note: I've not tried this, unsure if it's possible)

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For (1) - I'd recommend using Automation for this.

The rule below will remove the Sprint value if Story Points is empty, and remind the user to populate Story Points before adding an issue to the Sprint.

• Trigger: Field Value Changed
  • Fields to Monitor = Sprint
• Condition: Issue Fields Condition
  • Field = Story Points
  • Condition = is empty
• Action: Edit Issue
  • Field = Sprint
    • Value = <leave empty>
• Action: Comment on Issue

  • Hi {{initiator.displayName}},

    Thanks for adding this issue to a Sprint. However, it's missing vital information - Story Points.

    Please add these before adding an issue to a Sprint.

    Thanks!

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For (1), there's also a feature request open to make this restriction a native behaviour - check out JSWCLOUD-15376 

Let us know what you think!

Ste