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(info) This page only applies to Scrum boards. If you are using a Kanban board, please see Releasing a Version.

Usually you will only end a sprint if all of its issues have been completed. However, occasionally you may need to abort or cancel a sprint — that is, end it even if not all issues are complete. The process for ending a sprint is the same, regardless of whether or not all of the sprint's issues are complete.

To end the active sprint,

  1. Login to JIRA.

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

  3. Click 'Work'.
  4. Click the 'Close sprint' icon at the top of the 'Done' (rightmost) column:

    (info) You will need to have the JIRA 'Project Administrator' permission in the project(s) whose issues are included in the sprint.
    (info) When you try to close a sprint, and you have parent issues not Done but all sub-tasks are Done, or visa-versa, you will be prompted to make the parent Done before continuing. For issues to be interpreted as 'Done' on your Scrum board their status needs to be mapped to that column, so if you're receiving errors for parents or sub-tasks that you believe are in fact Done, ensure that they are mapped correctly.
  5. You will be taken to the Sprint Report. Your issues will move out of Work mode. Any incomplete issues will move back into the backlog and will be visible in Plan mode.

You can release the sprint as a version if you wish

Many Scrum teams don't release a version at the end of a sprint, but if you need to, it's easy to do. In the Completed Issues section of the Sprint Report, just click View in Issue Navigator. You can then use JIRA's Bulk Edit to assign all of the issues to the relevant version (for details, please see the JIRA documentation on

 Bulk Operations
).

 

(info) Note:

  • Because Scrum teams usually track completed issues by version rather than by sprint, your issues will not be marked with the date the sprint was closed.
  • Once a sprint is closed, if you ever need to view the contents of the sprint again, you can select that sprint in the Sprint Report.
  • You can find issues belonging to all closed sprints by using the closedSprints() function. For details, please see the JIRA JQL documentation.

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