From the course: Agile Project Management with Microsoft Project

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Assign features to sprints

Assign features to sprints

After you create sprints in your project, you can assign features to those sprints. In this sample project, we'll use points and priorities to determine which features to assign. Here we have our custom view that we created, C-Backlog. You can see the name over on the left side. This view sorts the features by priority. So we have all of our Priority 1 features at the top of the list. And those are the ones that we want to add first to our sprints. Let's say that the team can handle six points during each sprint. The first feature in the list is Priority 1 and it has three points. It's Capture Sales Forecasts. Let's add that to Sprint 1. In the Sprint cell, click there, click the down arrow, and then choose Sprint 1 and press Enter. The second feature in the list is also Priority 1, and it's also three points, so that will fit into Sprint 1. Click the down arrow in the Sprint cell and choose Sprint 1 and press Enter. Now let's reapply the group by sprint. To do that, go to the View…

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