Sprints
Help your team stay on schedule with sprints 💪
Sprints are an easy way to ensure your team is sticking to a schedule. In order to access the sprints feature, you'll need to use the "Projects, Tasks, Sprints" template from the Template Gallery.
Sprints are a great project management tool. Learn more about using Notion for project management here:
When you add the "Projects, Tasks, Sprints" template to your workspace, you'll see four new pages in your sidebar:
Tasks
: Database of all your tasks, showing their related projects and sprints.Projects
: Database of projects, where you can easily view all of the tasks within a project.Sprint board
: Board that shows the tasks for the current sprint.Sprints
: Database of current, future and past sprints.
Your Sprint board and Sprints database
The Sprints
database will give you a higher view of your current and future sprints. You can select any sprint's page to view its tasks. You'll also notice a Timeline
view which gives you a more linear look at sprints.
Sprint board
is where you'll likely go consistently to track your tasks. You'll notice three default views.
Current Sprint
: Shows tasks in the current sprint.
Sprint planning
: Shows tasks in the current sprint, next sprint and any tasks without an assigned sprint.
Backlog
: Shows tasks with no sprint assigned.
If you haven't already, add the "Projects, Tasks, Sprints" template to your workspace.
In the
Sprints
database, clickNew
at the bottom.Give your sprint a name, start date, and end date.
Planning a sprint
In the
Sprint board
, go to theSprint planning
view.Move any unfinished tasks from your current sprint or from the backlog into the next sprint.
Completing a sprint
What happens when you complete a sprint:
The status of your
Current
sprint will be changed toPast
. The status of theNext
sprint will be changed toCurrent
.The tasks on the board will reflect the new
Current
sprint.A new
Next
sprint will be created if none exists.
In the
Sprint board
, go to yourCurrent
sprint.On the right side, click button
Complete sprint
.You'll be asked to confirm the dates of your next sprint and what you'd like to do with the incomplete tasks. Click
Complete Sprint
.