What is a sprint?
Learn how a sprint lets a development team implement and deliver a discrete application increment.
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Coordinate and monitor work with sprints
You should have built a backlog and planned your versions and epics by this stage. Time to get your team working!
The documentation in this section will help you use Jira to coordinate your team's work. For Scrum, these tasks include planning and running sprints. For Kanban, these tasks include monitoring work in progress. In both Scrum and Kanban projects, you can use boards (Active sprints/Kanban board) and wallboards to keep your team on track.
Use active sprints
Learn about Active sprints and what they display.
Create sprints in company-managed projects
Create a sprint and start planning your work.
Start a sprint in company-managed projects
Learn how to start a sprint in a company-managed project.
What are parallel sprints?
Read how to enable parallel sprints so multiple teams can work from the same backlog, simultaneously.
Enable parallel sprints
Learn how to enable parallel sprints so multiple teams can work from the same backlog, simultaneously.
Monitor the progress of a sprint
Use these visualization tools to highlight problems in a sprint, so your team can remedy them.
Edit a sprint in a company-managed project
Edit a sprint's information including its name, dates, and goal.
Move or transition work items in an active sprint
Learn how to move and transition work items in an active sprint.
Reorder a sprint in a company-managed project
Reorder a sprint in your backlog.
Remove or delete work items from an active sprint
How to remove or delete work items from an active sprint.
Add work items to an active sprint
Learn how to create and update issues in an active sprint.
View and edit work item details in an active sprint
How to view and edit work items in an active sprint, including making bulk changes.
Link a Confluence page to a sprint
Learn how to link your Confluence pages to a Jira Cloud sprint.
Complete a sprint
Learn all the activities involved in closing a sprint on a scrum board.
Complete parallel sprints
Learn how to enable parallel sprints so multiple teams can work from the same backlog, simultaneously.
Delete a sprint
Delete a sprint from your backlog.
Delete a completed sprint in a company-managed project
Delete a completed sprint from your company-managed board.
Reopen a sprint
Find out why you might want to reopen a sprint, how to do it, and what happens to your Scrum project's work items and reports if you do.
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