Scrum board Company managed - DONE do not disappear ever.

Question

hello folks,

it's been quite a while but after several sprints I think something is not working properly: the tasks in DONE column are visible and never disappear!

in this way we have long DONE columns per each swimlane and the board is useless and messed up.

initially i thought it was caused when issues were migrated from a closed sprint to the new one, but... sooner or later.. something was closed in the active sprint and therefore should not appear in the new one...

any hint? :(

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Yes, when you complete the current sprint, issues in the farthest right column should be considered complete. They should no move to the backlog or appear in future sprints.

Artattack Group Srl · Answer

ty, so maybe we shall wait for the sprint to close, to "clear things up" as I changed the logic, as you suggested, leaving "DONE" as the farthest column..?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Artattack Group Srl

@Walter Buggenhout 's original answer applies to your scenario.

Your Done column was not the column farthest to the right. When closing a sprint only the issues in the column farthest to the right will be considered "complete". Issues in all other columns will be considered "incomplete" and moved to the backlog or to the next sprint, per your specification.

The assessment of "complete" or "incomplete" in this case is based entirely on the position of the issue in the column farthest to the right. It doesn't matter what the actual statuses are for issues in that column, nor whether or not the Resolution is being set.

If you change the status/column mapping so that the Done status is mapped to the column farthest to the right, that will only impact the current and future sprints. Done issues that were carried forward from previous sprints will still be in the current sprint.