Section CThe Daily BriefSprint Planner
Section C · Sprint Planner

Plan sprints around merged code.

Backlogs, story points, velocity and burndown, connected to GitHub and GitLab. Status follows pull requests, so your sprint chart reflects work that shipped.

Sprint 14 - Checkout and trackingBurndownBacklogVelocity
Committed42 pts
Completed31 pts
Days left3
Mon 19Fri 30
NF-176 Checkout address form5 ptsPR #482 merged
NF-201 Order tracking map view8 ptsPR #489 open
Fig. C.1Sprint 14 burndown. Points burn down when pull requests merge.
2 minto plan a sprint from a groomed backlog
6sprints of velocity history
GitHuband GitLab pull requests linked
Autocarry-over of unfinished work
Built for engineering teamsSprint Planner

Backlog grooming

Rank, estimate and split stories. Drag the top of the backlog into the next sprint.

Story points or hours

Estimate the way your team already does. Mix both if you have to.

PR-linked status

Open a PR with NF-201 in the branch and the task moves to review. Merge it and it moves to done.

Burndown and burnup

Daily charts that show scope added mid-sprint as its own line, so creep is visible.

Velocity

Rolling averages from completed sprints help you commit to what the team can really finish.

Retro notes

Capture what went well and what to change, linked to the sprint it came from.

How it worksFour steps

Groom

Estimate and rank the backlog with the product owner.

Commit

Pull stories in until committed points meet team capacity.

Build

Branches and PRs update task status on their own.

Review

Close the sprint. Unfinished work carries over with a note.

The full storySprint Planner

The sprint is done when the code is merged, not when someone drags a card.

Sprint Planner reads capacity from the Workload View, so planning starts with who is actually available: leave, part-time hours and other projects are already counted.

Pull request links work both ways. From a task you can see the PR, its review status and checks. From the sprint you can see which stories have no code yet with two days to go.

At the end of each sprint, the AI Daily Brief writes a short sprint summary: what shipped, what carried over and why, with links to every task and PR it mentions.

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