Sprints

Swarmia tracks the issues linked to your sprints and helps you visualize scope increase and carryover.

Sprint is currently in beta and supported only with Jira Cloud. Support for Linear Cycles and Jira On-Premises will be added in the future.

Overview

Measure the amount of work added at the start of a sprint, including tasks that are carried over from past sprints or have extended beyond two sprints.

Select the individual sprint to view a complete timeline of related issue activity and coding contributions. In this sprint overview, you can also identify issues that are part of the sprint scope but have no activity, as well as those that were removed during the sprint.

These indicators demonstrate the effectiveness of your planning for current and previous sprints, helping you enhance future planning and recognize tasks that need to be carried over.

Using sprints

Scope grouping

For each sprint, the graph displays two parallel stacked bars: the left bar shows the scope (all work assigned to the sprint), and the right bar shows the completed work. Both bars are broken down by the following categories.

• Planned: Issues added before the sprint started.

• Scope increase: Issues added after the sprint started. Removing an issue and re-adding it also counts as a scope increase.

• Carryover: Issues carried over from the immediately previous sprint.

• Carryover (2+ sprints): Issues carried over from two or more consecutive previous sprints.

• Removed from scope: Issues removed from the sprint and never added back. (Hidden by default.)

What is a consecutive sprint?

In Swarmia, consecutive sprints are those that occur within 5 days of each other.

For example, we have 3 sprints.

Sprint 1 — March 1 - March 14

Sprint 2 — March 15 - March 29

Sprint 3 — April 1 - April 14

If issues are once in Sprint 1, and then removed, and re-added in Sprint 3, these are not counted as Carry Over because when the issue is added into Sprint 3, the previous issue sprint is Sprint 1. Thus, Sprint 3 and Sprint 1 are not consecutive sprints

From that, depending on when it is added to Sprint 3, the issue will either be planned or a scope increase.

Sprint drill down

The new drill-down makes it easy to inspect what happened in each sprint. You can filter to see planned issues, scope increases, and carryovers separately. Issues removed from the sprint are shown in their own section, giving you the full picture of sprint changes.

Click any sprint in the chart to see all its issues with story points

Story points

You can switch to Issues or Story Points mode when your story points are available; otherwise, we will default to issue count. You can also see the Story Points of each issue in the sprint drill-down popup or when you click to view the sprint details as well.

Investment balance for sprints

Swarmia provides an investment breakdown of issues within each sprint, helping you identify patterns in your work. For example, you might notice that KTLO (keeping the lights on) work is consuming an increasing share of your capacity, or verify that you're meeting goals, such as dedicating over 70% of your effort to building new features.

The balance in sprints uses your primary investment balance breakdown. You can view the breakdown in either story points or issues.

Balance in the sprint list view

• For completed or in-progress sprints: shows the balance of completed issues

• For planned sprints: shows the balance of all issues in the sprint

Balance in the sprint detail view

When you drill into a specific sprint, you can view the investment balance for both all issues and completed issues. This comparison helps you spot patterns, such as whether your team tends to complete certain types of work more consistently than others.

Where to find it

You can find Sprint in app.swarmia.com/sprints, and if you haven't set up the sprint for your team yet, please check out the Sprint configuration setup guide.