Planning with Sprints

In an agile environment, tasks are often assigned to a specific sprint, rather than specific dates. With the Use Sprints for Manual Scheduling option enabled, tasks can be scheduled to begin and end based on sprint dates. You can also move a task to a different sprint directly from your Gantt chart.

If a task has more than one sprint assigned to it, Structure.Gantt will use the most recent sprint (based on actual and/or anticipated sprint end dates) for scheduling and visualization.

When tasks are scheduled by sprint, you will see the Agile icon  beside the task bar.

Visualizing Sprints

Sprints are represented in the chart header as follows:

• White bars represent closed sprints
• The deep blue bar represents an active sprint
• Blue bars represent future sprints

At some zoom levels, sprints will not be shown due to space limitations. To view sprints, simply zoom in.

Future Sprints

Jira does not allow you to specify dates for future sprints, so Structure.Gantt schedules future sprints based on your Sprint configuration settings.

Fixed Duration

Tasks that are scheduled by sprint have a Fixed Duration. They are scheduled for the entirety of the sprint, regardless of their work estimate, with the assumption that team members will work on tasks as they have availability during the sprint period, rather than in a set order or at a specific time. When calculating resource usage, Structure.Gantt spreads the work for each task evenly across the sprint.

See Fixed Duration for more details.

Tasks with Start/Finish Dates and Sprints

If a task has a Start and/or Finish date and is assigned to a sprint:

• If the Prefer sprints over manual start and finish dates is selected in your Gantt configuration, the task will be scheduled based on the sprint
• If this is not selected, the task will be scheduled based on the Start/Finish date

See Scheduling Precedence for more information.

Parallel Sprints

If you’re working with Parallel Sprints, please note that at this time Structure.Gantt only supports parallel sprints with the same start dates and durations. When dragging a task from a board with parallel sprints, Structure.Gantt will always check which print you wish to reassign the task to.