Sprint planning in CWM
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Summary of Sprint Planning in CWM
Sprint planning in Collaborative Work Management (CWM) enables teams to effectively plan, track, and manage work using Agile methodologies. The Sprint Planning view allows for seamless management of the team's backlog, sprint creation, and execution of planned work items.
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Key Features
- Backlog Management: All work items, both new and old, are automatically visible in the Backlog pane. Users can schedule these items into sprints and create various work types, such as Stories.
- Enabling Sprint Planning View: Activate the Sprint planning view from the Personalize side panel and save your Board view for consistent access.
- Sprint Creation: Create sprints with customizable durations, start and end dates, and story points capacity. Manage active sprints and monitor utilized capacity directly from the Sprints section.
- Personalization: Customize the columns in the Backlog and Sprint panes to display relevant information, adjusting the layout as needed.
- Work Item Management: Add, move, delete, and duplicate work items in the Backlog. Schedule stories and tasks into sprints, and manage workload by utilizing drag-and-drop functionality.
- Sprint Operations: Start and complete sprints directly from the Sprint planning view and create retrospective boards for team collaboration post-sprint.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing Sprint planning in CWM, teams can enhance their workflow efficiency, maintain better visibility of tasks, and adapt to project needs through customizable features. The ability to quickly manage and execute sprints leads to improved collaboration and successful Agile project outcomes.
Plan, track, and manage work for your teams in the Agile methodology using Sprint planning in Collaborative Work Management.
Within the Sprint Planning view of your CWM Board, you can manage your team's backlog, create sprints, plan work into sprints, and execute them seamlessly. All existing work items on your CWM Board are automatically added to the Backlog pane in the Sprint Planning view. This means that whether the work items are old or new, they will all be visible in the Backlog. From this pane, you can easily schedule these items into sprints for execution.
You have the flexibility to create work items of various types, such as Stories, or use any other default and custom work types that are available on your CWM Board. This flexibility ensures that you can tailor your sprint planning to fit the specific needs of your team and projects.
Enabling Sprint planning view
) side panel, select Sprint planning to enable the display of Sprint planning view on your CWM Board.Backlog
The Backlog pane displays all unplanned work items, including both newly added and older incomplete tasks. Completed work items are not shown, keeping your focus on what needs to be done. You can add work items directly to the Backlog from this view and use the personalize side panel to show or hide columns within the Backlog pane, customizing the display to suit your needs.
- Move work items to the top or bottom of the backlog based on the priority.
- Move items to the currently ongoing sprint.
- Move work items within the list by rearranging rows.
- Delete work items.
- Apply filters on any column. However, filters can't be applied on custom columns within Backlog.
- Change the number of items displayed per page.
- Duplicate work items by using Copy row.Note:You can duplicate only CWM tasks and Stories but not other connected work records.
- Drag and drop a single or multiple work items from Backlog to one of the sprints.
Sprints
The Sprints section in your CWM Board displays the list of active sprints. If you haven’t created any sprints yet, this section will show a form to help you get started. You can create a sprint by selecting the sprint duration, start and end dates, and story points capacity. To create additional sprints with the same settings, use the Add another Sprint option. For sprints with different durations or capacities, select Create Sprint. For more information, see Create a sprint in CWM.
Each sprint is a collapsible section where you can add work items directly and customize the view using the personalize side panel. Each sprint section also shows the percentage of utilized capacity and the remaining story points, helping you manage your team's workload effectively.
Personalizing Sprint Planning view
You can customize the columns displayed in the Backlog and Sprint panes using the Personalize () side panel, allowing you to see the most relevant information. Any changes you make can be saved to the current Board view or as a new view, depending on your needs.
If you require more working area for the Backlog or Sprints within the Sprint planning view, you can toggle between the Backlog, Sprints, and Backlog and Sprints options.