Every sprint begins with good intentions. You map the route, set the goals, line up the stories - everything looks smooth, like the start of a well-planned road trip. 👉 (Missed it? Article 1: How t...
From opinions to evidence with the Sprint Performance Report (now on Data Center & Cloud) There’s a special kind of retro that starts with “What went well?” and ends with “Let’s try harder n...
...nto the Issue Panel for easy drag-and-drop scheduling. Issues can be sorted or filtered by person, project, priority, sprint, and more. Start/end dates update in Jira automatically to keep both systems i...
I've recently released an update to the Sprint Capacity Analysis Forge application (which is available for free on the Atlassian Marketplace) that provides the ability to schedule work based on the s...
...implicity of story points during sprint planning, while project managers are stuck translating "8 points" into something finance can understand. It's like speaking different languages in the same m...
The Invisible Cost of Unclear Sprints “We delivered 75 story points, but committed to 60. Velocity is up… or is it?” For most teams, sprints end with a sense of ambiguity. Success is d...
Think sprint planning is all charts and estimates? Think again. It’s more like planning a road trip than you might expect. Picture this: You and your friends wake up one morning and decide, “L...
...ake complexity, uncertainty, and workload into account — giving product owners, developers, and scrum masters a better foundation for sprint planning and forecasting. In this guide, we’ll break d...
...riteria, the team immediately reduced rework and—bonus—finished a sprint early. Now that’s a metric worth celebrating. To reinforce wins like these, tools like Pivot Table View let you show p...
...his story take 4 days in QA, and who was handling it? Did we overload one team member during sprint 17? How long did issues sit untouched while assigned to someone? These are the questions Jira s...
Sprint planning is supposed to give you guardrails, clear, reasonable boundaries for what your team can actually deliver. But in practice? Most teams commit to 20–40% more work than they h...
...lan sprints, prioritize tasks, and monitor progress. Confluence: Confluence is a collaboration tool that allows teams to create, share, and store documents. It serves as a knowledge base where team m...
...bsp; Sprint estimates fall apart Work quality dips Deadlines slide Morale drops The problem? Most teams plan based on what’s visible, not w...
...eriod for more focused analysis: If you need to compare individual metrics across team members, teams, or timeframes (sprints, months, quarters, half-years, or years), the app s...
...n what drives your team’s progress. Whether you’re sprint planning, tracking bugs, or managing priorities, Project Mode transforms your mobile Jira experience into a high-efficiency workspace t...
“When are we actually going to hit our sprint commitments?” It’s the question that hangs in the air at the end of every sprint review—the one nobody wants to ask, but everyone’s thinking....
...he sprint retrospective. And at the heart of a good retrospective is accurate, insightful sprint reporting. But here’s the problem… Sprint reporting is often too manual, shallow, or late to make a...
...xecution, connecting strategy with delivery, turning project tracking from a reporting burden into a daily guide, as you can see in the following: Whether you're steering a team through sprint...
...rong time—or for the wrong reasons—it can derail sprints, overburden developers, and undermine product plans. Let’s talk about a crucial detail: when does a task actually leave the backlog? It might s...
Have you ever stopped to analyze what work-items are actually counted toward the velocity and how the Velocity and Sprint Reports really work? If not, you likely don’t get reliable reports. H...
...ften becomes a side project of its own. Many teams still rely on one or two "Jira experts" to build or maintain dashboards, or spend hours manually assembling views to answer the same questions every sprint...
“Why did we choose that API design again?” If your team is async, that answer probably isn’t in your sprint notes or Zoom recordings. It’s buried in a Slack thread from 6 months ago. Between a...
While traditional sprint planning focuses on defining the scope, tasks, and resources, having a clear, actionable roadmap for the sprint is key to keeping the project moving smoothly. In this a...
Welcome back to our “Report of the Week” series! This week, we’re focusing on the Sprint Progress and Story Point Flow Report, which helps track sprint performance. This report provides a v...
...t’s about adapting. If your team follows the same rigid process sprint after sprint without questioning it, you’re not Agile-you’re just repeating a pattern. A workflow that worked last year might be s...
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