> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.worksynk.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sprints

> Timeboxed cycles for pacing the team's work.

<Info>**Startup plan and above.** Off by default — enable under **Settings → Modules**.</Info>

A sprint is a fixed window with work in it. Use them when your team works in a
cadence and you care about throughput over time.

## Running one

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create the sprint">
    From a project's Sprints tab. Give it a start and end date.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add work">
    Move tasks into the sprint. A task belongs to one sprint at a time.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start it">
    An active sprint is what the board and burndown report against.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Close it">
    Closing shows what completed, what didn't, and what to carry forward.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Velocity depends on status categories

<Warning>
  Completion and velocity count by status **category**, not by name. A custom
  status meaning "finished" must be given the **Done** category, or that work
  will look incomplete in every sprint metric. See [Tasks](/tasks#statuses).
</Warning>

## Sprints or milestones?

Sprints pace *your team*. [Milestones](/milestones) mark what the *client* is
waiting for. They answer different questions and many teams run both.