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Manage, plan, and track your team’s progress

A Cycle is a set period of time where your team focuses on completing specific tasks or issues, similar to sprints in Agile. Each Cycle is flexible, allowing you to prioritize and tackle backlog items at your own pace.

Using Cycles, your team stays organized, meets deadlines, and keeps moving forward efficiently. It’s all about getting things done without the overwhelm!

Enable cycles​

By default, Cycles are automatically enabled when you create a new project. If you ever want to switch them off or back on, you can easily do that by navigating to Settings > Features in your project's ellipsis (…) menu.

Create cycles​

Caution

Two cycles cannot have overlapping dates.

To create a new Cycle, just press Q from anywhere in your project. Or, you can head to the Cycles page under your project in the sidebar and click the Add Cycle button. You’ll need to give it a name and set the start and due dates. If you want, you can also add a description—either right away or later on! Create cycle

Add issues to cycles​

  • After you create a cycle, you can start adding new issues or bringing in existing issues right in the Cycle page. Empty cycle

  • You can also link a Cycle directly as a property within any issue. Cycle property

Cycle states​

  • Active cycle
    An active cycle is the current, ongoing cycle (the current date falls within the cycle's start and due dates) in which a team is working to complete a set of tasks or user stories within a defined time period. Only one cycle can be active at a time.

  • Upcoming cycle
    A cycle with a start date in the future is considered upcoming. This allows teams to plan their next phase of work in advance, ensuring a seamless transition from the current active cycle to the next, with everything lined up and ready to go.

  • Completed cycle
    When a cycle’s due date has passed, it moves into the completed state. This reflects that the work scheduled during that cycle is finished, and the team can move on to review, wrap-up, and start planning for future cycles. Completed cycles are not editable, however you can transfer issues that are incomplete to an active or upcoming cycle.

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You can modify the name, description, start and due dates of active and upcoming cycles at any time.

Transfer issues​

Once the due date of an active Cycle passes, it’s automatically marked as completed. After that, you can easily transfer any unfinished issues to an active or upcoming cycle, making it simple to move any leftover tasks to the next cycle.

Transfer issues

Track active cycle​

Once a cycle is active and contains issues, you can monitor its progress, assess the team's productivity, and review the breakdown of priorities in the Cycles page of the project. This section also allows you to investigate any discrepancies if the cycle is not proceeding as expected.

Track cycle progress

Active cycles across projects​

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If you have multiple projects with Cycles running at the same time, you can easily track the progress of all active cycles in the Cycles section under the Workspace section in the sidebar. This gives you a quick overview of each project’s progress and helps you spot any potential issues early on. Each cycle displays its status—whether it’s ahead of schedule or falling behind—based on the burn-down and build-up metrics. Active cycles

Archive cycles​

You can archive completed cycles, allowing you to conceal significantly older cycles from your views.

Delete cycles​

You can delete a Cycle to remove it entirely. When you do, all associated analytics and progress reports will be erased. Any issues linked to that Cycle will also be automatically unlinked.