Hi..I created a sprint..In the sprint..i did not create any user story .i just added tasks and subt

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Hello,

My name is Shubhangi Patil.I don't not Hage much knowledge about JIRA..But have been assigned the role of scrum master..

I created a sprint.This sprint had only tasks and sub tasks...I added original estimates to all tasks and story points as well.

Now the total commitment hours were 282 hrs.of the whole sprint.

Now before closing this sprint..there were few incomplete tasks..I added actual time spent yo each task.and also split that task into a new one added estimate and moved it to newly created sprint.

But after closing this sprint and starting new ons..I could see the task from previous

Sprint also and the the split one in the new sprint..how do I rectify this??

2. When I looked at the velocity report..I saw commitment hours as 22 and completed hours as 133 hrs..

How did this happen??? Please help me

Walter Buggenhout · Answer

Hi @Shubhangi Dhone Patil and welcome to the Community!

That is quite a lot you have going on there ... So a couple of things to get you on the right track:

* Your sprint commitment is the total estimate of all the work that is in your sprint at the moment where you hit the start sprint button. Every change you make after that moment will be considered as scope change (a change can be: adding or changing estimates, adding additional issues to your sprint, removing issues from the sprint).
* Your velocity report is talking to you in hours. That means that you currently have time tracking / original estimates set as the estimation statistic of your board. That should be in Board Configuration > Estimation. It can be changed to something else, e.g. if you would rather want to see e.g. story points instead.
* The completed hours are number of hours spent on the issues that were complete at the end of your sprint. It is important to understand which issues your board considers to be complete. Very simply, these are the issues that are in the rightmost column of your board.
* When you complete a sprint, Jira moves the incomplete items back to the pile of items you still need to work on. Normally, when you complete a sprint, you should see a message asking you if you want to add incomplete items back to your backlog or into the next sprint. Referring to my previous point: incomplete items are all issues that were not in the rightmost column of the sprint board when you completed the sprint.
* Finally, when a sprint is completed and you are about to start a new one, don't bother about the closed sprint anymore (I mean: do run a sprint retro with your team and discuss how you can improve your process, ...). Focus on the work ahead and let the past be the past. If necessary, add a note to your retrospective report to explain what happened in Jira and do a better job from the next sprint onwards. I suppose your main goal is to build an awesome product for your customer(s), not struggle with past sprints in Jira 😉

As a final tip: have a look at Atlassian's micro blog site atlassian.com/agile to read up on agile practices and how you can combine agile theory and Atlassian tools. Specifically the section about how to do scrum with Jira might provide some useful tips to improve your experience.

Hope this helps!

Atlass Monster · Answer

Hello @Shubhangi Dhone Patil  welcome to the scrum role.

Here is good resource for those who want to learn more about Scrum: https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#sprint-planning

The work items have to be in the Done status (or the last status of your workflow) otherwise that will be considered unfinished work and it can be moved to the next Sprint or to the Backlog.

Likely some of the trailing issues have such large completed hours and your don't account for them in the regular pre-planned Sprint? Maybe we need more details to find out what happened.