Scope change in the sprint

Hey, fellow Jira users,

Quick ques: Other than pulling the sprint report from 'Reports', Is there a way to write a JQL so that I can show issues added and removed from the sprint after commencement. I'm trying to reproduce the issues removed and added sections from Jira's sprint report.

Thanks for the help.

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Hi @Yash Ruparel,

do you have the scriptrunner-app? If so, you can use these JQL-functions:

issuefunction in addedAfterSprintStart(board-name, [sprint-name])

issuefunction in removedAfterSprintStart(board-name, [sprint-name])

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Hi! @Thomas Schlegel - unfortunately, No - My company Jira does not have the add-on. One of the things i was thinking is to write a query using Sprint field something like SprintField = Changes EMPTY To !=EMPTY. I know the syntax is completely WRONG. But hope you get where I'm getting at.

But I'm unable to query on Sprint field. :(

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I don't think, that you can query the history of the sprint field with plain Jira.

"sprint was..." or "spring changed" is not possible.

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Yup - I figured that. Thanks for introducing to ScriptRunner though. Looks pretty useful!

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it really is - (and no, I don't work for Adaptavist ;-) )

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you don't say ;-)

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Thanks @Thomas Schlegel ! I would like to have a filter that notifies me for every scope change, but I would like to see the new scopechanges and filter out the older ones. Is that possible? Thanks!

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A 2026 update, since this thread still ranks for this question: the ScriptRunner functions in the accepted answer (addedAfterSprintStart / removedAfterSprintStart) are Server/DC only — on Jira Cloud there is still no JQL access to sprint-field history, and the request tracking this is JRACLOUD-75868.

What Cloud gives you natively: the Sprint Report marks work items added after start with an asterisk (no list export), and the burndown's event log shows scope events one by one.

We hit this gap ourselves and ended up building the reporting side as a dashboard gadget (disclosure: I'm the developer): it reconstructs each sprint's committed / added / removed lists from the Sprint field changelog, shows who changed the scope and when, tracks the say-do ratio across sprints, and exports the lists to CSV: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/2769608481/scopepulse-sprint-scope-change-tracking-for-jira

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