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A sprint in Beech is a short, named window where the studio decides what it will actually finish — not everything on the board, just the work that belongs in this stretch of time. Schedule is where you plan that window. Workspace is where the work gets done.

Why sprints make the week easier

Architecture work rarely fails from a lack of drawings. It fails when everything is due at once and nobody can see what the studio committed to this week. A sprint gives the team a shared list, a start and end date, and a place to put the rest until later.

• Focus — the active sprint is the work that counts right now. Everything else stays in Available work until you pull it in.
• Visible commitment — managers, contributors, and Home all look at the same sprint, so progress is not hidden in someone's head.
• A clean close — when the sprint ends, unfinished tasks stay available for the next one. Nothing is deleted, and you do not have to pick items to carry forward.

Firm-wide or project-wide

Your firm uses one planning mode at a time. New firms default to firm-wide; change it anytime in Firm settings → Scheduling.

• Firm-wide — one shared sprint across all projects. Best when the whole studio plans together.
• Project-wide — each project runs its own sprint. Best when different people manage different jobs.

Only one active sprint is allowed for the current mode: one firm sprint, or one active sprint per project. A task can only sit in one active sprint at a time. To switch modes, complete any active sprint of the other type first.

Start a sprint and add work

Open Schedule. The top of the page is the active sprint. If nothing is running, you will see a dashed drop zone and Start New Sprint. Pick a duration, dates, and an optional name, then start.

1. 1
   Start the sprint

   Managers set duration (1–4 weeks or custom), the date range, and a name if you want one. Contributors cannot start or complete sprints.

2. 2
   Pull work from below

   The bottom of Schedule is Available work: incomplete tasks that are not in this sprint, grouped by drawing section (and by project in a firm-wide sprint).

3. 3
   Add a row, a section, or drag

   Use Add on a single task, Add section to sprint to bring in a whole group, or drag a row onto the sprint above. Return sends a task back to Available work immediately.

Do the work in Workspace

Schedule is for planning, not for moving status. Once a task is in the sprint, people work it from Workspace. The board opens on the current sprint; switch sprint on the bar if the firm plans per project. In-sprint work still shows a green badge.

Home shows progress on the current sprint. Contributors on Schedule see a read-only list of their assigned sprint tasks — they cannot add, return, or complete the sprint. If they have nothing assigned, they get a link through to Workspace.

Complete the sprint

When the window is over, a manager clicks Complete sprint, then confirms. There is no separate Close tab and no carry-forward picker. Sprint membership simply ends. Incomplete tasks stay in Available work, ready for the next sprint. Done work stays done.

Past sprints live in the sidebar. The latest three are listed; View all opens the rest. Opening one shows a read-only overlay of what was in that sprint.