Schedule work for scrum teams on your timeline
Unless otherwise noted, the project timeline view is the same for both company-managed and team-managed projects.
For scrum teams, you can choose to schedule child work items on your timeline according to the sprint to which they’re assigned or using their start and end dates. Learn how to change which dates your timeline shows child work items.
If you choose to schedule them according to sprint dates, the schedule bars align with the sprints at the top of your timeline.
If you choose to show them using start and end dates, their scheduling bars align with dates at the top of the timeline.
Before you can use schedule work items by sprint, you first need to create sprints on the board associated with the timeline; you can’t create new sprints from the timeline view. Once created, the sprints appear at the top of your roadmap in chronological order, as shown above.
To schedule scrum child work items according to sprint dates on your timeline:
In your project, ensure that you’ve created sprints and assigned them dates. Once you’ve done this, they’ll automatically show on your timeline. Learn how to make sprints.
Hover over the timeline section based on when you’d like to schedule the work item. Faint blue drop zones will appear on the timeline, each corresponding to a sprint. If you have overlapping sprints, the work item will be assigned to the one that begins first.
Place the schedule bar in a blue drop zone, and Jira assigns the work item to that sprint.
To schedule scrum child work items according to start and end dates on your timeline, drag and drop either end of a schedule bar to change its dates.
Change sprint assignment
There are multiple ways to change a work item’s assigned sprint on your timeline:
Drag and drop the schedule bar to another sprint zone.
Select the schedule bar from the timeline to open the work item, then change the sprint in the Sprint field.
Right-click on the child work item’s schedule bar to open the Change sprint menu, then select the parent work item to which you’d like to move it. You can also clear the sprint assignment from this menu.
Rearrange work items
To rearrange work items on your timeline view, simply drag and drop them into your desired locations. There are a couple of different reasons you might want to change your work item order:
you want to change an work item’s ranking relative to work items of the same type
you want to assign a child work item to a new parent
These changes in your timeline are saved to your Jira work items in real-time.
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