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Sprints
Plan an area's work in one- to four-week sprints that make themselves on time.
A sprint is a stretch of one to four weeks with a set of work in it. In Suru Me sprints belong to an area: each area that runs sprints has a Sprints folder, and every sprint of that area sits in it. The folder is an agile board in YouTrack, so the sprints show there too, and Suru Me makes each one on time so you never have to remember.
Add sprints to an areaLink to this section
Right-click an area in the sidebar and choose Add sprints. That makes the area's Sprints folder and turns its sprints on; there's no second step. An area has one Sprints folder at most, and areas without one have no sprints. You need to be allowed to change the project to add one.
In YouTrack the folder is a board of its own, named after the project and the area (such as "CT · Website"), set to take issues added by hand. Renaming the area renames the board to match, if you can edit the board in YouTrack. If you can't, the area is still renamed, the board keeps its old name and a note at the bottom of the screen says so.
Sprints that make themselvesLink to this section
Once an area has a Sprints folder, Suru Me makes the sprint that's running today and the one after it, so there's always a next sprint to plan into. It does this whenever the folder shows in the sidebar or a sprint's page is open, so a sprint is never missing on Monday morning. They're named Sprint 1, Sprint 2 and so on.
When a sprint starts, the last sprint's unfinished work moves into it, and the sprint keeps a note of what it started with in its goal ("Started with: CT-1, CT-4"). That way an old sprint still tells you what was planned, even after its unfinished work has moved on.
Every 2 weeks from Monday
Sprint settingsLink to this section
Sprint settings on a sprint's page sets how the area's sprints come and go:
- Make the next sprint for me is on by default. Turn it off to make sprints yourself with New sprint.
- Length and Starts on set the rhythm: one to four weeks, from any weekday. Changing the start day moves the end of the next sprint by a few days so the rhythm catches up.
- A new sprint starts with the last sprint's unfinished work, or nothing.
- Progress counts tasks done or story points.
The settings belong to the Sprints folder, so everyone working in the area shares them. They're kept in YouTrack as one line at the end of the newest sprint's goal, such as "Rhythm: every 2 weeks from Monday; made by Suru Me; unfinished work rolls over; progress in tasks". Leave that line alone in YouTrack, or edit it there if you like; Suru Me reads it back.
A sprint's pageLink to this section
In the sidebar, the Sprints folder sits at the top of its area and lists every sprint, the latest first, with the running one's days left (such as "Sprint 4 3d"). A sprint's page is an ordinary list of its issues, so the board, the calendar, filters and grouping all work. Above the list you see the dates, days left, the goal, what the sprint started with, and its progress. You can also find an area's sprints in the command palette (⌘K) as "Sprints".
Click the title to rename a sprint. The arrows and the dropdown move to earlier and later sprints.
Progress in tasks or pointsLink to this section
By default a sprint counts tasks the way epics do: the tasks at the bottom of each tree, done when they're closed. Choose story points in Sprint settings to count points instead and see a burndown, a line of the points left each day against a steady line down to zero. If the board has no story points field yet, Suru Me adds one, and you set points in the issue panel.
Adding work to a sprintLink to this section
An area's sprints take only that area's tasks.
- Right-click any issue and choose Sprint, then the current or next sprint of its own area. The same menu takes an issue back out. Issues in an area without sprints don't get the menu.
- Select several rows and use Sprint in the bar at the bottom. It shows when every selected task's area has that sprint; tasks from different areas each go to their own area's sprint.
- An issue in a running sprint shows the sprint's name on its row.
An issue sits in one sprint per area, so adding it to the next sprint moves it there.
The Sprint filterLink to this section
A list's Filter menu has Sprint once one of its areas has a Sprints folder: Current sprint, Next sprint, No sprint, or one of the latest sprints. An area's list offers only that area's sprints; a project's list offers the sprints of all its areas, each named with its area. Ticking more than one means any of them. Current sprint stays current, so a saved view keeps showing this sprint as time moves on. See Filters, grouping and sorting.