Loading sprints during remote planning

Another great feature to help with dispersed team planning is the backlog kanban, in sprint view. It provides scrum teams with an easy way to load sprints according to their capacity during PI planning team breakouts. Teams typically begin their first breakout by estimating their capacity for each sprint of the PI based on their historical velocity (visible in either Jira Align or Jira Software) and their availability during the PI, factoring in things such as holidays, vacations, and training. They then identify and size the work items likely needed to implement the program's top prioritized features and begin loading them into upcoming sprints.

Jira Align's backlog kanban in sprint view allows stories and tasks to be dragged from the unassigned backlog on the right into the program increment's sprint columns on the left, keeping track of load against the capacity for each sprint. To begin, select your PI in the configuration...