Sprints and agile

Autessa Vision includes sprint planning for agile teams. The Sprints page lists every future, active and completed sprint with its tasks, plus a backlog of everything not yet planned, grouped by project. Drag tasks between the backlog and sprints, set dates, and start a sprint when it is ready.

• Sprints move through Future, Active and Completed, with only one active sprint at a time; starting another one completes the current sprint after you confirm.
• Each team sets a default sprint length in days, and the first sprint schedules itself from today for that length (still editable).
• Click a sprint’s name to rename it and its dates to change them; a sprint goal, when set, shows under the name.

Autessa Vision measures every sprint as it runs: completion by story points (or by task count when nothing is estimated), a pace check that compares progress with how much of the sprint has elapsed, a countdown to the end date, and To Do, In Progress and Done counts. When a sprint closes, its done points become its velocity.

• Progress is by story points when tasks are estimated, otherwise by task count.
• Pace compares progress with elapsed time; a sprint is behind when progress trails elapsed time by more than 10%.
• A countdown shows days left until the end date.

Autessa Vision closes a sprint with a review step. When you complete a sprint, its unfinished tasks are already selected, you pick which ones carry over, and Vision closes the old sprint and creates the next one with those tasks in one step. On the sprint’s last day, a one-time reminder pops up at 9am.

• Complete sprint opens a review listing every incomplete task, with this sprint’s unfinished work preselected.
• Tick or untick tasks to choose exactly what carries into the next sprint.
• Confirming closes the sprint and creates the next sprint with the picked tasks, in one step.