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Must we manually start and end sprints?

Chris Berry_u3bhu7

Hi,

I'm coming from a system (rally) in which you do not have to manually press a button to start and stop sprints, but I'm being told you must do so in Jira. I find this to be very tedious and mostly unnecessary. Why are the sprints not auto started based on the start date and completed based on the end date? Wouldn't that make more sense?

Is there a way to automate these perhaps based on the dates?

Accepted answers

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Chris Berry

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

There is not a native method to automatically start and end sprints based on their dates in Jira Cloud. There is not feature to enable for this, and there are no such actions available within Automation rules.

The Sprint API endpoints seem to indicate that the sprint State could be changed, but I have not explored it enough to see how one would specify what to do with incomplete work at the completion of.a sprint.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-sprint/#api-group-sprint

An app vendor published an article about having that capability in their app. I have not used the app nor do I know if there are other apps that also provide this capability.

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/Automate-Sprint-Start-and-Completion-in-Jira-Cloud-with-Sprint/ba-p/3164987

I can't speak to why Atlassian made this design decision.

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Piotr Smialek

I think the idea of sprints is to review completed work after every sprint and plan what should be done/postpone for the next time interval. isn't it?

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Chris Berry

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-sprint/#api-group-sprint

An app vendor published an article about having that capability in their app. I have not used the app nor do I know if there are other apps that also provide this capability.

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/Automate-Sprint-Start-and-Completion-in-Jira-Cloud-with-Sprint/ba-p/3164987

I can't speak to why Atlassian made this design decision.

Chris Berry_u3bhu7

Yes, but you could easily tell it what to do ahead of time. Maybe you always want the work to go into the backlog. Then, you aren't stuck manually starting and stopping each and every sprint.

Coming from a tool where you don't' have to do that, it just seems overly tedious.

PgM Innovations Support Team

Hi @Chris Berry,

The accepted answer is correct - Jira Cloud does not natively auto-start or auto-complete sprints based on dates.

If you’re managing multiple boards, it can become repetitive and easy to miss, which may impact reporting and sprint cadence.

If you’re open to exploring a Marketplace app for automating sprint management, happy to share an option (Disclosure: I’m affiliated with one).

Regards,

PgM Innovations

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