Scrum-based sprint and release management for delivery teams
Agile Sprints is a dedicated ZedX application designed for teams delivering work using Scrum and sprint-based Agile methods.
It provides a structured environment for managing epics, stories, sprints, and releases, helping teams plan work clearly, track progress accurately, and deliver predictably.
By focusing on sprint execution, team capacity, and delivery flow, Agile Sprints supports effective Agile delivery without introducing unnecessary process or governance overhead.
Manage epics, user stories, and sprint backlogs
Plan sprints using story points and team capacity
Visualise work using configurable sprint boards
Support daily stand-ups and sprint reviews
Track sprint progress in real time
Manage releases across one or more sprints
Assign stories to planned release versions
Measure velocity and sprint performance
Control access using role-based permissions
Agile Sprints allows teams to organise work into epics and user stories within a prioritised product backlog.
Stories can be estimated using story points and selected into sprints during planning, providing visibility of scope, capacity, and sprint goals before work begins.
This supports disciplined sprint planning while allowing teams to adapt priorities as requirements evolve.
Each sprint is managed using a visual sprint board showing stories as they move through defined workflow stages.
Teams can easily see work in progress, completed items, and blocked work, supporting effective daily stand-ups and collaboration.
Sprint boards remain focused on current delivery, helping teams maintain momentum and avoid distraction from longer-term reporting concerns.
Agile Sprints provides clear metrics such as sprint completion, velocity, and carried-over work.
Performance trends across multiple sprints help teams improve estimation accuracy, understand delivery patterns, and support continuous improvement.
Metrics are designed to inform teams and encourage learning, rather than to enforce control or performance pressure.
Agile Sprints can be used independently by delivery teams or linked to Project Portfolios where sprint-based work contributes to wider project and portfolio reporting. Sprint progress is summarised through periodic updates without exposing task-level detail.
Teams running mixed delivery models can use Group WorkStreams alongside Agile Sprints. This keeps sprint delivery focused while allowing operational and ad-hoc work to be managed separately.
What is ZedX Apps Agile Sprints, and who is it designed for?
Agile Sprints is a Scrum-based project management application designed for teams delivering software development, technology projects and other work using Agile methods. It provides a structured environment for managing product backlogs, user stories, sprint planning, daily activities and releases, helping teams organise delivery and monitor progress.
How does Agile Sprints support Scrum project management?
Agile Sprints supports the Scrum delivery process by organising work into epics, user stories and time-boxed sprints. Teams can maintain prioritised backlogs, plan sprint commitments, track work through visual boards and review delivery performance. This provides a consistent approach to Scrum while allowing teams to adapt their working practices.
Can Agile Sprints manage product backlogs, epics and user stories?
Yes. Teams can organise requirements into epics and user stories, maintain a prioritised product backlog and select stories for upcoming sprints. This creates a clear relationship between larger requirements and the individual items of work needed to deliver them.
How does Agile Sprints help teams plan sprints and manage capacity?
Sprint planning allows teams to estimate user stories using story points and consider available team capacity before committing to work. This helps teams establish realistic sprint goals, balance workloads and avoid overcommitting resources. Planning information can also be refined as delivery experience improves.
Does Agile Sprints provide Scrum boards and Kanban-style task tracking?
Yes. Agile Sprints provides configurable visual sprint boards showing work as it progresses through defined workflow stages. Teams can quickly identify items that are planned, in progress, blocked or completed. The boards support daily stand-ups and help everyone understand the current state of sprint delivery.
Can Agile Sprints track velocity and sprint performance?
Yes. Agile Sprints provides reporting on sprint progress, completed work, team velocity and items carried forward between sprints. Reviewing performance across multiple sprints helps teams understand delivery trends, improve estimation accuracy and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
How does Agile Sprints support release planning and management?
Agile Sprints allows teams to organise planned releases across one or more sprints and associate user stories with release versions. This provides visibility of the functionality being prepared for delivery and helps teams coordinate sprint commitments with wider release objectives.
Can Agile Sprints be used by multiple teams working on different projects?
Yes. Agile Sprints can support separate delivery streams, allowing teams to manage their own backlogs, sprints and delivery activities. Role-based permissions help control access to application functionality and information, supporting organisations with multiple Agile teams and projects.
Can Agile Sprints work alongside Project Portfolios and Group WorkStreams?
Yes. Agile Sprints can operate independently or alongside other applications on the ZedX Apps platform. Project Portfolios provides wider project, programme and portfolio oversight, while Agile Sprints focuses on Scrum delivery. Group WorkStreams can be used for operational activities and Kanban-style workflows that do not require formal sprint management.
Does Agile Sprints include artificial intelligence?
Yes. Agile Sprints benefits from Cloe AI, the assistant integrated into the ZedX Apps platform. Users can ask questions, obtain guidance and receive assistance with Agile and Scrum-related activities. AI capabilities can help reduce administrative effort and support teams in planning, organising and understanding their work.