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Sprint planning software

Plan delivery cycles around goals and dates.

Meridian uses delivery cycles to connect dates, ceremony milestones, recorded leave, goals, and project tasks. Teams can distinguish committed and stretch goals, assign ownership, track outcomes, and turn a goal into an actionable task.

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Short answer

What should sprint planning software help a team do?

Sprint planning software should help a team define a dated delivery window, agree on goals, account for leave, assign ownership, and track the outcome. Meridian calls these windows cycles. Each cycle can include dates, status, ceremony dates, committed and stretch goals, assignees, recorded leave, notes, progress, and goal-to-task conversion.

Included capabilities

Cycle planning built around measurable goals.

Define what the cycle should achieve, then preserve ownership and outcome status as work progresses.

01

Cycle dates and status

Set start and end dates and track whether a cycle is planned, active, overdue, or completed.

02

Ceremony dates

Record planning, review or retrospective, code-freeze, staging-release, and production-release dates.

03

Committed goals

Define the outcomes the team commits to deliver during the cycle.

04

Goal types

Keep optional stretch outcomes visibly separate from the goals the team commits to deliver.

05

Ownership and outcomes

Assign goals and track to-do, in-progress, achieved, rollover, not-achieved, and sprint-creep states.

06

Leave and goal-to-task conversion

Review recorded cycle leave and open a project task from a goal with useful goal and assignee context carried into the form.

How it works

Plan and review a delivery cycle in three steps.

1

Define the cycle

Set the delivery dates, current status, and any ceremony milestones the team needs.

2

Agree on goals

Add committed and stretch goals, assign owners, and convert goals to tasks where useful.

3

Track the outcome

Update goal statuses and resolve unfinished goals before completing the cycle.

Meridian Starter

Useful enough to run a real project. Free enough to start today.

Meridian Starter includes one active project, unlimited users, unlimited retrospectives, resource management, and core time tracking. Paid plans add more projects and premium capabilities.

Starter plan

Free forever

No credit card
  • 1 project
  • Unlimited users
  • Delivery cycles, ceremony dates, and recorded leave
  • Goals, progress, and goal-to-task conversion
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Meridian focuses sprint planning on dated delivery cycles, goal ownership, recorded leave, outcomes, and conversion into project tasks.

Common questions

Clear answers before you start.

Why does Meridian call sprints cycles?

The product interface uses the broader term cycle for a dated delivery period. A cycle can still support sprint-style planning with goals, ownership, progress, and review dates.

Can a Meridian cycle show recorded leave?

Yes. Recorded cycle leave is displayed with the cycle details, including the resource, number of days, and optional description.

Can a cycle goal become a project task?

Yes. Meridian can open a project task form from a goal and carry over its title, description, cycle, and matching assignee context.

Is sprint planning included on Starter?

Yes. Starter is free forever for one project with unlimited users. Professional and higher plans add project capacity.

Plan the next delivery cycle around clear outcomes.

Create one free project, invite unlimited users, and connect cycle goals to actionable project work.

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