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title: "Sprint Board"
description: "Create sprints, move stories and tasks across execution states, and close the loop on delivery."
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# Sprint Board

The Sprint Board is the team’s active delivery view. It shows the stories and
tasks committed to a sprint, their status, and the details needed to move them
forward.

![Heizen Studio Sprint Board in list view showing the sprint header, date range, hours burned, and task rows with status, priority, estimate, and assignee.](/images/heizen-studio/sprint-board.png)

## Create or select a sprint

1. Open **Delivery → Sprint Board**.
2. Choose **Create Sprint** when the project has no suitable sprint.
3. Enter a name and start/end dates, then save.
4. Use the sprint selector to move between active and completed sprints.

The board displays the current sprint’s date range and status. Use the list or
Kanban toggle depending on whether you need a compact planning view or a visual
flow.

## Add and move work

Stories can be pulled from the [backlog](/studio/delivery/backlog), added to a
sprint, and reordered. Use the status control or drag a story between columns
when the team’s workflow allows it. Add tasks beneath a story when the work
needs smaller execution units.

To move a whole task, choose the move button on its row, open the **Move to**
list, pick **Backlog** or any unlocked sprint (upcoming or past, searchable by
name), and confirm. The task and all of its user
stories move together, so there is no need to send it to the backlog first.
Locked sprints are not listed.

To move a single story, choose the move button on the story's row instead. It
works the same way, but only that story moves; its task and other stories stay
where they are. Tasks and stories in a locked sprint have no move button.

When the work is in a sprint, both dialogs select **Backlog** by default, so
confirming straight away sends it to the backlog. Work already in the backlog
has no default; pick a sprint first.

Open a story to update its description, acceptance criteria, assignee, priority,
estimate, due date, sprint, comments, tests, pull requests, or references. The
story whose detail panel is open is highlighted in both the list and Kanban
views. Creating a story from either view opens its detail panel automatically.

Use **References** to attach the material a story is built from: images, files
such as PDFs, Markdown, HTML, or spreadsheets, and links such as Figma designs.
Upload or drop files, paste a link into the field and choose **Add link**, or
click the section and paste a copied screenshot, file, or link directly. A story
holds up to 10 references.

Choose **Build with Helix** on an open story to hand it to an [agent
run](/studio/helix#agent-runs-from-a-ticket-or-story). Helix builds against the
story's acceptance criteria and opens a pull request. The button appears once a
repository is linked to the project.

## Lock a sprint

Sprint managers can choose **Lock** after planning is complete. A locked sprint
protects its stories and tasks from casual modification. Unlock it only when a
change is intentional and the team has agreed on the new plan.

## Complete a sprint

Use the sprint status action in the header to move the sprint through its
lifecycle. Choosing **Paused** asks for a reason before saving the status. The
reason is kept with the sprint and appears when you hover the **Paused** status
in the header and in the project dashboard’s Health status tooltip. Before closing a sprint, review incomplete stories, unassigned
work, and the linked test or ticket status. Move unfinished work to a future
sprint or leave it in the backlog deliberately.

> **The board is a view, not a separate copy**
>
> Story and task changes made on the board are saved to the same delivery data
> shown in the backlog and My Focus. Refreshing the page does not create a new
> version of the work.

Source: https://docs.heizen.work/studio/delivery/sprint-board/index.mdx