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Ability to customize the default duration of a Sprint

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      When you click on Start Sprint, there are values for the Start and End Date of a Sprint, and it is a period of two weeks. You can change these dates, but since every sprint should have the same duration, it would be useful to be able to set the default duration of a Sprint, so everytime you click on Create Sprint the default duration would be the value you set (one week, three weeks, etc).

            [JSWCLOUD-7809] Ability to customize the default duration of a Sprint

            david.lin2
            There's not currently a way to do that, there are related issues for this.

            Configure default Sprint Duration on project level
            https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-6858

            As a Scrum Master I would like to use a predefined template for my Rapid Board
            https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-6790

            Kind regards,
            Martin
            JIRA Agile

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - david.lin2 There's not currently a way to do that, there are related issues for this. Configure default Sprint Duration on project level https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-6858 As a Scrum Master I would like to use a predefined template for my Rapid Board https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-6790 Kind regards, Martin JIRA Agile

            david.lin added a comment -

            Thanks. This is not exactly what we need. We want to be able to set the sprints in all boards to be the same duration, e.g., 1 week, 3 weeks, etc., as the default. Is there a way we can do that?

            david.lin added a comment - Thanks. This is not exactly what we need. We want to be able to set the sprints in all boards to be the same duration, e.g., 1 week, 3 weeks, etc., as the default. Is there a way we can do that?

            david.lin2, it is available in JIRA Cloud today, though the feature is implemented to repeat a custom duration rather than being able to set a default duration in advance. That is, the last used duration of a sprint e.g. 3 weeks, would be the setting for the next started sprint.

            Kind regards,
            Martin
            JIRA Agile

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - david.lin2 , it is available in JIRA Cloud today, though the feature is implemented to repeat a custom duration rather than being able to set a default duration in advance. That is, the last used duration of a sprint e.g. 3 weeks, would be the setting for the next started sprint. Kind regards, Martin JIRA Agile

            david.lin added a comment -

            We are using the cloud version of JIRA Agile. Is it available? I contacted your support and was told that this feature is still not available. I want to set all our projects to have a default sprint duration. Can you tell me how to do that?

            Thanks.

            David

            david.lin added a comment - We are using the cloud version of JIRA Agile. Is it available? I contacted your support and was told that this feature is still not available. I want to set all our projects to have a default sprint duration. Can you tell me how to do that? Thanks. David

            JIRA Agile 6.7.0 shipped on 29th April 2015, please see the release notes at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AGILE/JIRA+Agile+6.7+Release+Notes

            Kind regards,
            Martin
            JIRA Agile

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - JIRA Agile 6.7.0 shipped on 29th April 2015, please see the release notes at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AGILE/JIRA+Agile+6.7+Release+Notes Kind regards, Martin JIRA Agile

            david.lin added a comment -

            When will it be available?

            david.lin added a comment - When will it be available?

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - - edited

            This feature will be available soon in JIRA Agile 6.7.0
            edit: JIRA Agile 6.7.0 was released 29th April 2015

            Kind regards,
            Martin
            JIRA Agile

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - - edited This feature will be available soon in JIRA Agile 6.7.0 edit: JIRA Agile 6.7.0 was released 29th April 2015 Kind regards, Martin JIRA Agile

            Option 2 please! We have three week sprints. Way too long.

            Marion Rosner added a comment - Option 2 please! We have three week sprints. Way too long.

            Job added a comment -

            I would at least prefer something customizable in days, not just 1/2/3 weeks, since we use a 3-week sprint that starts on thursday but ends on tuesday (so we have some free development time and there is some time for feedback in between). I think option 2 would cover this.

            Job added a comment - I would at least prefer something customizable in days, not just 1/2/3 weeks, since we use a 3-week sprint that starts on thursday but ends on tuesday (so we have some free development time and there is some time for feedback in between). I think option 2 would cover this.

            The second option would be my favorite.

            Achim Schrepfer added a comment - The second option would be my favorite.

            This would be super useful!

            Joshua Silver added a comment - This would be super useful!

            Customized sprint duration would be helpful!

            Steven Pesavento added a comment - Customized sprint duration would be helpful!

            I personaly like the 2. option the most.

            Radek Darebný added a comment - I personaly like the 2. option the most.

            Thanks for voting, watching and commenting on this Suggestion.

            As noted above there are a couple of ways (possibly more) that this could be implemented.

            1. A board configuration option.
              Setting the default duration here would affect the date/time values in the Create Sprint dialog when creating a new sprint in the board.
              The setting could be a dropdown with common values e.g. 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks.
            2. A duration selector in the Create Sprint dialog.
              This would default to the last sprint duration used when creating a sprint on this board e.g. 1 week.
              The selector could be used to change this duration easily and would include common values as above.

            Option 2 would seem to be the most flexible and easiest to use, particularly in cases where multiple teams are using the same board.

            Kind regards,
            Martin
            JIRA Agile

            Martin (Inactive) added a comment - Thanks for voting, watching and commenting on this Suggestion. As noted above there are a couple of ways (possibly more) that this could be implemented. A board configuration option. Setting the default duration here would affect the date/time values in the Create Sprint dialog when creating a new sprint in the board. The setting could be a dropdown with common values e.g. 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks. A duration selector in the Create Sprint dialog. This would default to the last sprint duration used when creating a sprint on this board e.g. 1 week. The selector could be used to change this duration easily and would include common values as above. Option 2 would seem to be the most flexible and easiest to use, particularly in cases where multiple teams are using the same board. Kind regards, Martin JIRA Agile

            AndrewP added a comment -

            Could use this now!

            AndrewP added a comment - Could use this now!

            Yes a per-board setting would be a great help. We have different teams using between 1 - 4 week sprints. It would be very handy to not do this manually each time a team starts a new sprint.

            Mehul Sanghvi added a comment - Yes a per-board setting would be a great help. We have different teams using between 1 - 4 week sprints. It would be very handy to not do this manually each time a team starts a new sprint.

            Indeed useful if we could set a default sprint duration per board.

            Gianni Pucciani added a comment - Indeed useful if we could set a default sprint duration per board.

            Any of these options would be OK, I think:

            • per-board default set in board configuration
            • when a sprint is created, set the length to be the same as the previous one.

            Josef Špak added a comment - Any of these options would be OK, I think: per-board default set in board configuration when a sprint is created, set the length to be the same as the previous one.

            Tim Yeung added a comment - - edited

            I suggest to have this configurable per board.
            It should be pretty simple to get it implemented, and it brings a much better user experience (for those teams that do no sprint for 2 weeks).

            Tim Yeung added a comment - - edited I suggest to have this configurable per board. It should be pretty simple to get it implemented, and it brings a much better user experience (for those teams that do no sprint for 2 weeks).

            This would save me extremely boring repetitive tasks as well, two-week sprints are too long for some of my projects.

            Josef Špak added a comment - This would save me extremely boring repetitive tasks as well, two-week sprints are too long for some of my projects.

            I would also appriciate this option. We have 1 week sprints for the week and it is quiet annoying.

            Radek Darebný added a comment - I would also appriciate this option. We have 1 week sprints for the week and it is quiet annoying.

            This feature would be very helpfull for me.

            Alexander Regler added a comment - This feature would be very helpfull for me.

            Willy Volk added a comment -

            We have 14 teams that plan weekly sprints each Tuesday. I have to change the default sprint length each week. Over the course of a year, you're saving me 672 default field overrides. Thanks.

            Willy Volk added a comment - We have 14 teams that plan weekly sprints each Tuesday. I have to change the default sprint length each week. Over the course of a year, you're saving me 672 default field overrides. Thanks.

            This would be a very useful feature to have to allow for the least amount of modifications as preferred dates will be set at default.

            Deleted Account (Inactive) added a comment - - edited This would be a very useful feature to have to allow for the least amount of modifications as preferred dates will be set at default.

            I would also really like to see this option as it's quite a custom value for anyone using JIRA and simply hard-coding seems very restrictive. Thanks.

            Deleted Account (Inactive) added a comment - I would also really like to see this option as it's quite a custom value for anyone using JIRA and simply hard-coding seems very restrictive. Thanks.

            Anything has changed regarding this request? I can't find any option to change the default Sprint duration so there is probably no such option in GUI yet?

            Pavel Kudrys added a comment - Anything has changed regarding this request? I can't find any option to change the default Sprint duration so there is probably no such option in GUI yet?

            +1 for this feature. It would be really helpful, as currently every time we start a sprint we have to change the duration. Thanks for adding the issue Clarissa.

            Chris Keeble added a comment - +1 for this feature. It would be really helpful, as currently every time we start a sprint we have to change the duration. Thanks for adding the issue Clarissa.

            Such a feature definitely makes sense. Saves a few clicks after each sprint planning meeting to get times adjusted. Over time, this adds up.

            Heiko Giesselmann added a comment - Such a feature definitely makes sense. Saves a few clicks after each sprint planning meeting to get times adjusted. Over time, this adds up.

            StefanDamm added a comment -

            We would like to see this feature added as well. We find ourselves changing this every week. Not a major thing but would be very nice if we could use the default values when starting a sprint.

            StefanDamm added a comment - We would like to see this feature added as well. We find ourselves changing this every week. Not a major thing but would be very nice if we could use the default values when starting a sprint.

            Clarissa Gauterio (Inactive) added a comment - https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/140028/default-sprint-time-in-greenhopper

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