# Run sprints and releases without losing track of the requests > Backlog, sprint board and releases in one project. Requests from the rest of the company arrive through forms, and the hours behind every ticket are counted as the work happens. - [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo) - [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com/en) ## How software teams take work from backlog to release One project holds the backlog, the sprint, the release and the hours, so nobody keeps a second list on the side. 1. **Rank the backlog** (Projects) — Stories, bugs and requests in one ranked list, estimated in story points, hours or item count, whichever your team uses. 2. **Plan a sprint the team can finish** (Resource planning) — Pull work from the top of the backlog and check who is on leave or booked elsewhere before the sprint starts. 3. **Move work with clear rules** (Boards and workflows) — Columns with work-in-progress limits, and transitions that can ask for a comment, a done checklist or no open blockers. 4. **Count the hours without timesheet Fridays** (Time tracking) — Start a timer on the ticket, or let the desktop agent credit time to the task you picked, and correct it when it is wrong. 5. **Ship and write the notes** (Releases) — Link items to a release, decide where open ones go, and download release notes grouped by item type. ## The views engineering teams live in They all read the same items, so a card moved on the board is already right in the backlog, the timeline and the report. ### Sprint board Kanban or Scrum columns mapped to your statuses, with swimlanes and quick filters written in the query language. - Work-in-progress limits per column - Swimlanes you can collapse - Filters like owner = currentUser() ### Backlog The project's ranked list of items with key, status, priority and points. Move what matters to the top in one step. - Reorder to top, up, down or bottom - Unranked items clearly marked - Saved filters you can share ### Active sprint Days left, committed and completed work, scope added and removed, logged time, and the burndown and burnup charts. - Burndown and burnup - Velocity once three sprints close - Numbers also shown as a table ### Release timeline Epics and items on one time axis with dependencies, sprints, milestones and releases, and conflicts listed by name. - Dependencies across projects - Critical path on the schedule - Milestones that warn when slipping ## What you can finally measure Engineering work leaves a trail of tickets. These come from that trail, without a separate spreadsheet. - **Velocity and sprint scope** — Committed against completed work per sprint, and how much was added or removed after the sprint started. (Sprint report) - **Cycle time** — How long items take from start to done, so you can see whether review or testing is where work waits. (Insights) - **Hours per epic and release** — Every logged or measured hour rolls up to its item, epic and release, ready for the next estimate or a cost question. (Project reports) - **Planned work against capacity** — Who is booked past their hours in the coming weeks, before you commit the next sprint or an unplanned request. (Resource planning) ## Let the assistant write the tickets Akollo AI reads your backlog, sprints and hours, and nothing changes until you confirm it. - “Break this feature down into stories and tasks with estimates.” — Here are 3 epics and 17 items with estimate ranges and the dependencies between them. Create them in the backlog? - “What is at risk in sprint 24?” — Two stories are blocked by an open bug and one has no owner. At the current pace about 8 points will not finish. Sources are linked below. - “Write my status update for this week.” — You closed 6 items, 2 are in review and the SSO story is due next week. Here is a short draft you can copy into the stand-up thread. Run the assistant on our cloud, on your own model or switch it off. It only reads what the person asking is allowed to see. ## The Akollo modules software teams use - [Projects & tasks](https://akollo.com/en/products/work) — Backlogs, sprint boards, releases and the timeline. - [Time tracking](https://akollo.com/en/products/time) — Timers on the ticket and weekly timesheets. - [Desktop agent](https://akollo.com/en/products/desktop-agent) — Time credited to the task you are on. - [Resource planning](https://akollo.com/en/products/people) — See who has room before the sprint starts. - [Reports & dashboards](https://akollo.com/en/products/insights) — Cycle time, velocity and hours per release. - [AI assistant](https://akollo.com/en/products/ai) — Breakdowns, risk checks and status drafts. ## Questions software teams ask ### Is there a query language like the one we use in Jira? Yes. Search uses a query language, for example owner = currentUser() AND statusCategory != "done". Save the result as a filter or a board quick filter and share it with the project. ### Can we move our Jira projects to Akollo? Yes, and not all at once. Connect Jira Cloud or Jira Data Center, pick the projects, review fields, comments, attachments and history, and accept each part once its exceptions are resolved. ### How does Akollo compare with Jira? Both handle backlogs, boards and sprints. Akollo adds time tracking, resource planning and project cost in the same app, and can run on your own servers. ### How do other teams send us requests? Through request forms with the fields you need. Each request lands in the project's triage, where the team accepts it, declines it with a reason, marks it as a duplicate or snoozes it. ### Can our scripts reach Akollo? Yes. The public API is versioned and documented with OpenAPI, and keys are limited to the scopes they need. Inbound webhooks accept signed events from other systems. ## See your next sprint in Akollo We will set up a board with your statuses, your request types and your sprint rhythm, and walk you through it on a call. - [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo) - [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com/en) --- Source: https://akollo.com/en/solutions/it-engineering · [Türkçe](https://akollo.com/tr/cozumler/yazilim-ve-bt-ekipleri), [Deutsch](https://akollo.com/de/loesungen/it-und-entwicklung)