Cycles in Sprint
The Cycles in Sprint report counts how many different active sprints a work item has been part of. In this example, we use 2, 3, and 6 as "slot splitters" to group issues as follows:
< 2: Issues that have only been in a single active sprint.
[2...3): Issues that have been in two different active sprints.
[3...6): Issues that have been part of 3, 4, or 5 different sprints.
6+ Sprints: Issues that have cycled through 6 or more sprints.
Step 1: Add a Data Source. In our example, we’ve filtered our demo project “AQUA” and disabled the date range to view all previous sprints.
Step 2: Leave the default 'Number of issues' metric.
Step 3: Choose ‘Cycles in Sprint’ for the ‘Display by’ field. Define your own slot splitters, or use our example and enter 2, 3, and 6 to create the four buckets described above.
Note: No issues have been part of 6 or more sprints, which is why the 6+ slot is missing on the chart.
Step 4: Select a sprint board you want to analyze.
Optionally, you can stack by any relevant field for better insights.
‘Cycles in Sprint’ – counting logic
Only cycles occurring in active sprints on the selected sprint board are counted.
Issues added to a sprint before it starts are recorded by Jira in the sprint history but do not count as a cycle for this metric.
Only data from the board selected in the chart configuration is used for the calculation; data from other boards is not counted, even if an issue has been on different boards.