Starting a Sprint

Once you have chosen which issues are to be included in your next sprint, you are ready to start the sprint.

This page only applies to Scrum boards.

To create and start a new Sprint,

1. Log in to JIRA.

2. Click the Agile link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar, then select your preferred board from the resulting dropdown menu.

3. Your board will be displayed.
4. Click Plan.
5. Make sure the sprint marker (the grey bar) is positioned below the issues you want to include in your new sprint. Drag it up or down as needed.
6. Click the Start Sprint button.
   You will need to have the JIRA 'Project Administrator' permission in the project(s) whose issues are to be included in the new sprint.
   If you do not have an estimation statistic applied to an issue, you will receive a warning when starting the sprint (unless you are using Issue Count, as this is calculated automatically).
7. You will be prompted to enter a sprint name and to select the Start Date and End Date for the sprint.
8. The issues will disappear from Plan mode and move into Work mode. While a sprint is active in Work mode, you can still plan a subsequent iteration in Plan mode, but you won't be able to start it until the active sprint is completed. (You can, however, drag and drop an issue in Plan mode onto the active sprint.)