Migrate from Jira to SprintFlint

Most Jira → SprintFlint migrations finish in under an hour for projects under 500 active tickets. The hardest part is usually persuading the rest of the team that the simpler tool will work. Once they see the kanban board, the velocity chart, and the retro module already wired up, that conversation gets short fast.

SprintFlint imports tickets via AI, so you don’t need to learn a new export schema or write a script. Paste a CSV, drop a Notion export, or point us at a JQL filter and we’ll structure the tickets for you.

Steps

1. 1 Export your active sprint from Jira

   In Jira, go to Project settings → Export → CSV (Current fields). Filter to the active sprint and any open backlog tickets you want to bring across. Story points, status, assignees, labels, and descriptions all come along.

   If your team uses Jira Cloud, this is under … (more) on the issue search screen → Export issues → Export CSV (current fields).

2. 2 Sign up for SprintFlint

   Create a free account at sprintflint.com/magic-link/new. No credit card. The first 300 tickets are free, so the migration itself doesn’t cost anything.

   On signup we auto-create a demo project so you can see the UI before importing real data.

3. 3 Create your project

   From the dashboard, New Project → name it the same as the Jira project (so the tickets keep familiar prefixes like PROJ-123). Pick a sprint length matching your Jira cadence.

4. 4 Import tickets via AI

   On the empty sprint page, click Import → From text or CSV, paste the Jira export, and SprintFlint structures the tickets — title, description, story points, status, labels, and assignee — without you mapping fields manually.

   For larger backlogs, use the API: POST /api/v1/projects/:id/sprints/:id/import_from_text with the CSV contents.

5. 5 Map statuses (one-time)

   Jira’s defaults map cleanly to SprintFlint’s: To Do → todo, In Progress → in_progress, In Review → in_review, Done → done, Won’t Do → cancelled. Custom Jira statuses fall back to backlog and you can re-bucket them in seconds.

6. 6 Validate the import

   Spot-check 5-10 tickets. Confirm story points carried across, descriptions look right, and the assignees are correctly mapped (we match by email). If anything’s off, the import is non-destructive — re-run after fixing the source CSV.

7. 7 Set up the rest of the team

   From Settings → Team, invite teammates by email. Each member gets a magic-link sign-in. SprintFlint roles are simpler than Jira’s: owner, admin, member, viewer.

8. 8 Switch the kanban board

   Update your team’s bookmark, agree on a “Jira read-only after Friday” cutoff date, and ship one full sprint cycle on SprintFlint before turning Jira off. Your historical Jira data stays accessible in Jira’s archive — nothing gets lost.