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Using a backlog and managing sprints

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Using a backlog and managing sprints

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The backlog view for those projects that have it is a great place to organize future work. In the case of the Scrum project template, we can assign our work into timeboxes, sprints. And for both Scrum and Kanban projects, we can easily use the backlog to organize our work into epics and versions. Let's take a look. Here we are in Jira Cloud, and let's drill down on our Scrum project, its active board. On the active sprint board, we do have a sprint in progress with a few stories in the sprint. Let's switch over to the backlog view. We can see the sprint currently in progress, sprint one, and the issues assigned to it at the top of this backlog view. Below that is an area for issues that are in our backlog, not assigned to a sprint currently. Let's populate our backlog with some additional future work. We'll just fill in the summary field, and we can edit issues to add other details later if needed. The backlog view is a good place to get issues quickly created during planning…

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