Sprint planning that knows who is on leave.
Approved leave comes out of sprint capacity automatically, so the plan matches the team you really have. Standups and retros find their meetings on the calendar by themselves, and what you learn stays with the sprint.
Three days of approved annual leave came out of the sprint on their own. The leave ledger belongs to People and the sprint belongs to Projects, and one reads the other because they are one database.
The plan tab
Commit work against real capacity.
The sprint goal sits at the top with its status. The backlog and the committed list are side by side so you can move work between them. On the right, capacity per person with leave already deducted, and the four numbers that tell you whether the sprint was realistic.
Leave approved in People is already out of the sprint.
Approved leave comes out of capacity by itself.
There is nothing to connect. Leave is approved in NearSync, so the sprint already knows about it.
- Deduct approved leave from capacity automatically
- See capacity per person, and for the team
- Compare committed points against team capacity
- See velocity from the last few sprints while you plan
- See scope added mid-sprint counted on its own
Standups and retros find their own meetings.
Each one is matched to its calendar meeting, and action items appear once the retro records measured outcomes.
- Have each standup and retro matched from the calendar automatically
- Open a standup with what changed since the last one
- Log what the sprint taught you, and keep it with the sprint
- Link a meeting by hand when it was not on the calendar
- Follow an epic's progress across every sprint it runs through
Access
Who can do what.
Everybody on the team moves their own work and can log what they learned. Planning the sprint, naming a scrum master and closing it belong to whoever runs delivery.
See the sprint, its capacity and its velocity.
Commit work, move issues, log a learning.
Plan sprints, set the goal, name a scrum master.
Run parallel sprints and close them.
Admin is the highest role and is not constrained by the permission grid, so it is worth keeping to the smallest group that genuinely needs it.
One sprint, start to finish
Leave approved in March, already in the plan.
Nobody had to copy that leave into the sprint tool, because there is no second tool. The sprint was planned against 22 points instead of 28, the six points added mid-sprint were counted on their own, and the retro matched its own meeting on the calendar.
Approved in People, weeks before anybody thought about the sprint.