The problem, in sprint leads' own words
Jira's own reports show pieces of it — a burndown chart here, a velocity chart there — but the numbers a scrum master actually has to defend in a sprint review live in no single place. Two public posts describe the gap better than any pitch could:
“Creating useful reports about team capacity and actual vs estimated time? You need expensive plugins or have to export everything to external tools. I've wasted countless hours manually calculating sprint velocity and team utilization — stuff that should just be there in dashboards.”
— Sarah J., Latenode Community, July 2025
“We are required to report on a number of metrics such as committed, completed, added, and rolled over. There is a way to see the stories that have been added after the sprint has begun, but there is no easy way to aggregate this, which is a waste of time… I also wish Jira had an indicator to tell you that you are approaching the limit for the story points that can be delivered during a sprint.”
— IT Release Manager reviewing Jira on PeerSpot (“Room for Improvement”)
If you recognize that spreadsheet — the one you rebuild by hand every sprint — this page is for you.
What Sprint Truth would do
One panel on your Jira dashboard, plus the same view on the project page. It reads only what's already in your Jira — which stories are in the sprint, their points, the time estimates, and the logged time — and puts together three things:
- What was planned vs. what actually happened. For every sprint: how many points the team signed up for at the start, how many were added mid-sprint, how many were removed, how many got completed, and how many rolled over into the next sprint — in points and percentages. The table your managers keep asking for, without digging through old tickets by hand.
- Planned time vs. real time. The time you estimated against the time actually logged, per sprint and per type of work — so you can see where the plan and reality keep drifting apart.
- An overload warning, while you plan. Points promised against what your team can realistically finish (based on what you've actually delivered lately, adjusted for time off), with a clear “you're at the limit” signal during planning — not after the sprint has already blown up.
Sprint Truth would only report. It does not track time, replace your timesheet tool, or move any of your data out of Jira: it would be built with Atlassian's own app system, so your data stays inside Atlassian.
What the report looks like (a made-up example — this shows the shape, not a screenshot)
| Sprint | Committed | Added | Removed | Completed | Rolled over | Scope change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprint 24 | 42 pts | 9 pts | 3 pts | 38 pts | 10 pts | +14% |
| Sprint 25 | 45 pts | 2 pts | 0 pts | 44 pts | 3 pts | +4% |
Numbers above are invented to show the shape of the report. The product is not built; nothing here is a screenshot or real customer data.
The price wedge: why not just buy the big suite?
Most teams who need this report end up buying a broad time-tracking suite. The market leader is excellent software — priced like it, and licensed like it. From Tempo's own pricing page (tempo.io, checked October 24, 2026):
| Tempo Timesheets | Sprint Truth (proposed) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, 1–10 users | $10.00 / user / month | $1.50 / user / month — founding price, locked for waitlist members |
| Price, 11–100 users | $5.99 / user / month | |
| Licensing | “Your Tempo license size must match your Jira license size” — every Jira user, whether they log time or not | You pay per person, at the size of your team — not for every user on your whole Jira account |
| Scope | Full time-tracking suite: timesheets, approvals, planning, finance add-ons | One report: what was planned vs. what happened, planned vs. real time, and the overload warning |
If you need timesheets, buy the suite. If you need this report and resent paying suite prices — for every user on the account — to get it, that's exactly the gap Sprint Truth is testing.
How the decision works: the 14-day clock starts the day the first community post goes live. 25+ waitlist signups from people who run sprints = it gets built. Below that, it's shelved — no quiet zombie project, no pivot into something else. Either way, everyone on the list gets one email with the outcome.
Join the waitlist
Four fields. Your role and team size are asked because the 25-signup bar only counts people who actually run sprints in Jira — that's the whole point of the test.
Frequently asked questions
Does Sprint Truth exist yet?
No — and this page won't pretend otherwise. It's a pre-build validation test with a public bar: 25 waitlist signups from sprint leads within 14 days of the first community post. Hit the bar, it gets built. Miss it, it's shelved.
What exactly would I be installing?
A panel for your Jira Cloud dashboard (plus the same view on the project page), built with Atlassian's app system (Forge). Apps built this way run on Atlassian's own computers and are installed through the Atlassian Marketplace — and before you install, you review exactly what the app is allowed to read.
If it's built, when?
The add-on itself would take days to build; Atlassian's review of new Marketplace apps adds calendar time on top (their published process runs roughly 1–4 weeks). Waitlist members hear the outcome at day 14 and get first access if it ships. No specific launch date is promised — that's deliberate.
Why not just fix this with Jira's built-in reports?
Some teams do, with enough saved filters, dashboard gadgets, and discipline. What Jira doesn't give you on its own is the per-sprint table — planned vs. added vs. removed vs. rolled over as one combined report — or a warning when you're promising more than the team can finish. If your current setup already gives you that, you don't need this, and the waitlist count will say so.
Who's behind this?
Ren Hollis — an independent builder (the same studio behind the calculators and tools elsewhere on this site). Sprint Truth would be a first Atlassian Marketplace app, which is exactly why it's being validated in public before a line of it is built. Community posts about it disclose this affiliation, per the Atlassian Community's vendor guidelines.
Sources & scope
- Tempo Timesheets pricing and license-size rule: tempo.io pricing page, checked October 24, 2026 ($10.00/user/mo at 1–10 users; $5.99 at 11–100; “Your Tempo license size must match your Jira license size”).
- Capacity/visualization complaint: Sarah J., Latenode Community — “Which missing functionality would you like to see added to Jira?”, July 29, 2025.
- Committed/added/rolled-over aggregation and capacity-indicator request: Jira review excerpted on PeerSpot — Jira: Room for Improvement (IT Release Manager, financial services firm).
- Founding price ($1.50/user/mo) and the 25-signup / 14-day bar are the builder's own published terms for this validation, stated here so the test can be checked against them.
Last updated October 24, 2026. Sprint Truth is a working name for a product under validation; it is not an Atlassian product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Atlassian or Tempo.