Sprint Automations

Reduce the amount of admin required to manage your sprints using Sprint Automations.

The Sprint Automation to mark sprints as done was permanently enabled for all new and existing Sprint Folders on all ClickUp plans on March 17, 2023.

What you'll need

  • The Sprint Automation to mark sprints as done is always permanently enabled on all ClickUp plans.
  • The other two Sprint Automations are optional and available on the Business Plan and above.
  • Sprint Automations do not count toward your monthly Automation usage limit.
  • Guests can work on tasks in Sprints, just like regular tasks.

Available Sprint Automations

The following Sprint Automations can be enabled for each Sprint Folder in your Workspace.

When Sprint ends then Mark Sprint as Done

For more info about this Automation, read our article Sprint reporting and planning

Sprints are automatically marked as Done at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on the sprint's end date. Marking a sprint as Done does not update the status of any tasks added to the sprint.

This Sprint Automation is always permanently enabled on all ClickUp plans. The other two Sprint Automations are optional and available on the Business Plan and above.

When Sprint is done then Create new Sprint

When a sprint is marked Done, you can automatically create one or more future sprints. New sprints will be added after any existing sprints. 

When Sprint is done then Move tasks to next Sprint

After the current sprint is marked as done and before the next sprint starts, any unfinished tasks will be moved out of the current sprint, into the next sprint.

Tasks in a Done status will not move over to the next Sprint.

Tasks in Multiple Lists that have been added to a sprint will be:

  • Kept in their home List.
  • Removed from the completed sprint.
  • Added to the next sprint.

When Sprint is done then Auto Archive old sprints

When the latest sprint is marked as done, sprints preceding the latest sprint by a specified number of sprints will be archived.

By default, the specified number of sprints is two. For example, when sprint 3 ends, sprint 1 will be automatically archived.

You can customize this number to leave any number of old sprints unarchived.

When you enable this Automation, old sprints will be archived according to your last completed sprint and the specified number of sprints you selected for the Automation.

Enable Sprint Automations

To enable Sprint Automations for the sprints within each Sprint Folder:

  1. Click the ellipsis ... next to a Sprint Folder.
  2. Select Folder settings, then Sprint Folder settings.
  3. Click the toggles to enable Sprint Automations.
  4. Click Done.
    Screenshot showing the Automations modal with the four Sprint Automations. When Sprint ends then Mark Sprint as done is turned on by default.
  5. The selected Automations will apply to current and future Sprints.

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