Sprints

Restriction. You can only use sprints with Scrum boards.

Tracker can help you utilize the Scrum workflow approach. With scrum, all your pipeline is split into sprints. A sprint is a development cycle that lasts a certain amount of time. Each cycle starts with issue evaluation and planning for the upcoming sprint.

  1. Plan a sprint
  2. Changing sprint status
  3. Adding issues to an epic
  4. Applying filters
  5. Configure sprint display

Plan a sprint

Step 1. Estimate the effort required for issues

Estimate the effort it will take to implement the issues in the backlog. Effort is measured in Story Points, which is an abstract way to define the complexity of project issues relative to each other. Each team comes to an agreement on how they determine their workload.

Use planning poker on the issue board to assess an issue's complexity with your team.

If you've already decided on the score, you can enter it on the issue page in the Story Points field.

If you want to evaluate the complexity of multiples issues when planning a sprint, do the following:

  1. Click Boards on the top Tracker panel and select your board.

  2. Click Sprints in the upper-right corner.

  3. If there are too many issues, you can always hide some of them using filters.

  4. Hover over the issue in the Backlog column.

  5. Enter the number of Story Points in the box to the right.

    To add an issue to the poker page for team evaluation, click and choose Add to poker.

Step 2. Create a new sprint

  1. Click on the right-hand side of the Sprints block.

  2. Enter the name of the sprint and the start and end time.

  3. Click Save.

Step 3. Add issues to a sprint

There are multiple ways to add an issue to a sprint:

  • Go the Sprints page and drag the issue from the Backlog column to the sprint's column. If there are too many issues, you can always hide some of them using filters.

  • Specify your sprint on the issue page using the corresponding field on the right-hand panel.

  • To quickly add multiple issues at once, use the bulk change feature: filter your issues and specify your sprint in the corresponding field when editing the issue.

Changing sprint status

The sprint's status reflects its completion stage. To change sprint status, do the following:

  1. Click Boards on the top Tracker panel and select your board.

  2. Click Sprints in the upper-right corner.

  3. Click to the right of the sprint name.

  4. Choose one of the following statuses:

    Status Description
    Open The sprint's issues are not yet being worked on.
    In progress The sprint's issues are being worked on.
    Completed All issues have been resolved.
    Archived

    The sprint has been archived and won't be displayed in the sprint list. To open the list of archived sprints, click Archived sprints .

    Archived sprints cannot be added to issues.
    Status Description
    Open The sprint's issues are not yet being worked on.
    In progress The sprint's issues are being worked on.
    Completed All issues have been resolved.
    Archived

    The sprint has been archived and won't be displayed in the sprint list. To open the list of archived sprints, click Archived sprints .

    Archived sprints cannot be added to issues.

  5. Click Save.

Adding issues to an epic

Epic is a type of issue that allows you to group other issues from different queues and plan your workload.

You can use the board to create epics and add issues to them.

Applying filters

You can filter your issues to leave only the ones you need in the Sprints tab. To do this:

  1. Click Boards on the top Tracker panel and select your board.

  2. Click Sprints in the upper-right corner.

  3. Choose the issue filter parameters on the left side of the page. To do this, click the filter button:
    • Resolution

      Select one or more resolution types from the list to only display completed issues falling under these resolutions.

    • Status

      Select one or more statuses from the list to only display issues falling under these status types.

    • Assigned to me

      The sprint's page will only display issues a user is working on.

    • Reported by me

      The sprint's page will only display issues created by the user.

    • Epics

      To select issues included in an epic, click on the section with the epic's name.

      To select issues not included in an epic, click No epics.

    • Versions

      Click the section with the epic's name to only display issues of a certain version.

    • Components

      Click the section with the component's name to only display issues with that component.

    • Tags

      Click the section with the tag's name to only display issues that have that tag.

Configure sprint display

You can set your sprint page to display issues and sprints in a single column. To do this:

  1. Click  → Personal settings on the upper panel in Tracker.

    Note. You can also follow this link: https://tracker.yandex.com/settings.

  2. Choose Display sprints and issues in a single column.

  3. Click Save.