Question 1

How does Planoda handle sprint planning?

Accepted Answer

A sprint in Planoda is a Cycle — a time-boxed container you fill by dragging work in from the backlog on a keyboard-first board. Each issue can carry an estimate, so you see committed points against the team's capacity as you plan, and a burndown chart updates itself as issues move through their workflow states. Unfinished issues roll forward into the next cycle automatically, so nothing gets dropped between sprints. Sub-issues and dependencies make blocked work obvious before it stalls, and velocity and scope trends in Insights help you right-size the next commitment instead of guessing. The board stays the single place the team looks each morning.

Question 2

Can I run sprint planning and a roadmap in the same tool?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Cycles, projects, and initiatives share one schema in Planoda, so the sprint you plan this week rolls up into the same roadmap leadership reviews — you don't maintain a separate planning artifact. Tie each cycle back to its project and initiative, and progress flows upward automatically as issues move, so the sprint board and the quarterly roadmap read from one source of truth instead of drifting apart. That means no reconciling a deck against the tracker before a review: the roadmap is a live view of the same cycles your team is running.

Question 3

How does the burndown chart work?

Accepted Answer

The burndown is automatic — it reads the estimates on the issues in the cycle and tracks completed versus remaining work as issues move through their workflow states. There's nothing to update by hand; as the team closes work, the line falls on its own. Because it's driven by the same live issue data as the board, the burndown is never stale, and scope changes mid-sprint show up as they happen. Velocity and scope trends across multiple cycles live in Insights, so you can spot a team that's chronically over-committing and plan the next sprint against what it has actually finished before.

Question 4

What happens to unfinished work at the end of a sprint?

Accepted Answer

Unfinished issues roll forward into the next cycle automatically, so work never falls through the cracks between sprints. Carryover is visible — you can see exactly what came over from last time rather than rediscovering it mid-sprint — which keeps the next commitment honest. Combined with velocity trends in Insights, recurring carryover becomes a signal that the team is planning more than it can finish, so you can right-size the next cycle instead of repeating the pattern. Nothing is silently dropped, and nothing has to be manually re-entered.

Question 5

Do I need estimates to plan a sprint?

Accepted Answer

No — estimates are optional, but they make capacity planning and the burndown far more useful. With estimates on issues you can weigh a cycle's committed points against what the team has historically finished, and the burndown tracks remaining points rather than a raw issue count. Without them you still get a time-boxed cycle, a keyboard-first board, automatic carryover, and dependency tracking; you just plan by issue count instead of points. Most teams add lightweight estimates once they want velocity trends in Insights to guide how much to commit next time.

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