ClickUp Sprints: Folders, Points and Plan Limits

ClickUp sprints turn a backlog into a time box. The team picks a set of tasks, works that set for a fixed period, then reviews what finished before the next period starts. The Sprints ClickApp is on every plan, including Free Forever. The charts that tell you whether the forecast was honest start on Business.

This guide is the feature: folders, duration, points and plan limits. The engineering workflow, including GitHub, is in ClickUp for software development. If you are choosing between a continuous board and a time box, start with Kanban vs Scrum.

What are ClickUp sprints?

ClickUp Help defines a sprint as a fixed period, usually one to two weeks, in which a team commits to a specific set of tasks. You plan what fits, do that work, and review before the next sprint. The Help example is a marketing team on a two-week sprint that pulls a set of tasks from a backlog, works only those tasks, then checks progress.

The Sprints ClickApp adds Sprint Folders and Sprint Subfolders. A Sprint Subfolder is a Sprint Folder nested in a Folder. Each sprint inside them behaves like a List: you add tasks, views and, if you want, a List template so every new sprint starts with the same structure. Sprint statuses are based on the sprint's start and end dates.

Sprints can sit next to ordinary Folders and Lists. When you create a Space, the Marketing Teams and Product + Engineering workflows already include sprints. You can also keep a dedicated backlog List, or several Lists, beside the active sprint.

Only an owner or admin can activate the ClickApp, choose which Spaces use it, and edit the Workspace default settings for new Sprint Folders. Members can edit settings on a Sprint Folder and can create sprints. Guests cannot create sprints. Guests can add tasks, work those tasks, and add sprint points.

Which plans include ClickUp sprints?

ClickUp Help publishes the split by plan. Prices below were checked October 2026.

Business Plus and Enterprise include the same sprint features as Business. Enterprise pricing is custom. Unlimited billed monthly is $10 per user. Business billed monthly is $19 per user.

The "mark sprint done" automation is permanently on for every plan. The rest of the sprint automations are a Business feature. Do not buy Business for the time box itself. Buy it when you need burndown, burnup, velocity or the extra automations.

How do you set the sprint length?

New Sprint Folders inherit the Workspace default. ClickUp's sprint planning article says duration defaults to two weeks, and that only owners and admins configure those defaults. After that, members create sprints inside the settings.

You can override a single Sprint Folder. A company default of two weeks can sit next to a team folder that runs one week. Settings on the folder include the name, the measure of effort, the start day, the duration, the timezone, the start time, non-working days, a default List template, and whether each new sprint gets a Dashboard view.

Custom Sprint Duration is on every plan. Use it when one sprint needs dates that are not the folder default. ClickUp Help also describes setting a custom duration of five or more weeks as the Workspace default, from the Sprints ClickApp under Manage sprint settings. The planning article calls two weeks the most common length and a good starting point. One-week sprints fit teams that need faster feedback. Sprints of three or four weeks fit complex features. Adjust the length when work keeps carrying over. That guidance is about the product, not a rule from the Scrum Guide. The method comparison is in agile vs waterfall.

To create the first folder: hover the Space, click the plus icon, choose Sprint Folder, set duration and start date, and create it. The first sprint is added for you. Keep the backlog as its own List in that folder so planning is "move work in," not "hunt through the Workspace."

How do Sprint Points and the forecast work?

Sprint Points estimate relative effort, not hours. ClickUp Help says common scales include 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13, and that you can set your own values. An 8-point task is roughly twice as complex as a 4-point task, not twice as long. Turn on the Sprint Points ClickApp, pick the Spaces, and optionally roll up subtask points onto the parent. Nested subtask points roll up to the top-level parent, not to the subtask in between.

Points per assignee is a Business-and-above option, and it needs the Multiple Assignees ClickApp. The task total is the sum of each person's points. Remove an assignee and their points come off, unless they were the last assignee, in which case the points stay on the task. Guests with edit or full permissions can add or change points. The slash command /pts opens the points modal, but Help says the full multiple-assignee options do not show there.

You can measure effort with time estimates instead, if that ClickApp is on for the Space. Pick one measure and use it for the forecast. Mixing points and hours in the same commitment number makes velocity meaningless.

Forecast locking has two modes. The default is manual: you confirm the sprint. The alternative locks the forecast automatically on the start day and start time. Changing that setting applies to future sprints. The locked number is the total Sprint Points, or the time estimates, at the start.

On Business and above, Dashboard cards read that history:

• Sprint Burndown shows remaining work against the forecast.
• Sprint Burnup shows completed work against total scope, so you can see tasks added after the start.
• Sprint Velocity compares committed points with completed points across the last 3 to 10 sprints.
• Sprint Task Report reports on the tasks in the sprint.

Free Forever and Unlimited can still run the sprint. They cannot show those cards. A Board view grouped by status is the status meeting until you move to Business. ClickUp dashboards explains the other cards and the separate dashboard use limits.

What happens to unfinished work?

Spillover is the tasks that did not finish. ClickUp lets you move them to the next sprint, send them back to the backlog, or close them. Automatic rollover hides a planning problem. If the same tasks spill three times, the forecast is too big or the tasks are too vague. Shorten the commitment or split the work. Do not treat the next sprint as a storage folder.

A default List template keeps each new sprint from starting blank. Templates can include tasks, views and automations. Use that for the repeated checklist (kickoff, review, retro), not for last sprint's unfinished features.

Should you use ClickUp sprints or another tool?

Use sprints when the team can protect a time box. A support queue that must accept new work every day is a board with a work-in-progress limit, not a sprint. Trello is the easier board if that is the whole job.

Use ClickUp sprints when product, marketing or operations share the same Workspace as the people doing the work. ClickUp's own intro uses a marketing sprint as a valid case, not only an engineering one. Jira remains the specialist for a team that is almost entirely engineers and already lives in backlog, sprint and release reports. Jira is free for up to 10 users, and Standard is about $7.91 per user/month. ClickUp vs Jira is the longer comparison. The ClickUp review covers the rest of the product.

Start on Free Forever if you need the time box and can live with 100 Sprint Points uses. Move to Unlimited at $7 per user/month billed annually when the rest of the Workspace needs the paid limits, not because sprints require it. Move to Business at $12 billed annually before the first review where you expected a velocity chart.