Rally Software

When a sprint finishes, sometimes there are stories which are not finished. How can I move these unfinished stories to the next sprint without changing my velocity? Currently, I go one-by-one through each unfinished story and change the assigned iteration to the next sprint. However, there are two issues with this.

1.        This is incredibly manual and time consuming. Can I do this in bulk?
2.        When I change the iteration on a user story, the points are no longer counted in the iteration statistics. This is wrong – my velocity and burndown chart should reflect both the finished and unfinished work.

Bulk edit can be done from the List View on the Iteration Status page.  For the second question, it's a personal preference, but I see Velocity as how much value the team delivers per sprint, not the work that the team did during the sprint.  Therefore, I recommend that stories are simply rolled over to the next sprint, with all of its points.

Sounds good.  Thanks and you may close this ticket.

Best Regards…Gary

Gary Sultan  |  Sr. Technical Analyst | Portfolio Governance Services

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