Hi
Does anyone know of a way to create empty sprints so we can plan out sprints for the year - i.e. we create sprints with start and finish dates, for the whole year and then in planning we can simply add in the items to the relevant sprints throughout the year?
Thanks
Hi @Simon Phillips,
You can add as many (empty) sprints as you like. You cannot set the dates up front, as they are filled out when you start the sprint.
But that should not keep you from creating a couple right away.
(just click the Create Sprint button a couple of times)
I understand but we wanted to use the dates to help highlight when each sprint starts and ends. This will help the PO/business see our sprint cycle.
Simon
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I understand, but you can't initiate those up front. As a workaround, you could simply reference them in your sprint names, though.
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True, it just would be nice to be able to plan the year, especially around known periods of non-work - i.e. public holidays etc.
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It would also be good to understand how you can represent vacation of a team member in a sprint.
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Sure,
Just be aware that the more sprints you create up front, the more hassle it will be to assign issues from the backlog into the correct sprint. In sprint planning, that will usually be the next sprint (maybe 2 or 3 maximum ahead of time).
And I know from experience that no living being is capable of correctly planning the allocation of work to the correct sprints up front for several months correctly. That will mean you'd be dragging work across sprints all of the time.
In the end, in terms of effective work management I'd dare to suggest not creating more than like 2 or 3 sprints ahead of time will often prove to be most effective in terms of organising your work.
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About the vacation part: the tool does not support you there. The sprint is a commitment of the set of issues you commit to as a team for a certain time box (of usually just a couple of weeks, right).
The tool is there to visualise the result of your underlying sprint planning process, where you sit together as a team and decide what the amount of work you are going to undertake during that time box. In that meeting, you take the capacity of your team (and as such also holidays) into account to decide what work will be committed. And it is the result of that exercise that ends up in your sprint.
You are right that it may be added value to include this capacity information into Jira to support your overall process. The Atlassian Marketplace offers quite a few apps that may support that capacity use case
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personally I would do this outside of Jira. I can imagine planning an entire year out would inevitably result in constant change. as each sprint approaches you can then use the external reference to build the upcoming sprint. Alternatively, maybe your create a dummy scrum board for planning then clean things up as you move the issues into the actual execution scrum board. just a crazy idea. :-)
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It is possible to add the dates into the future Sprints you create by clicking the three dots.. it will show up in the Backlog view.
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