Stop Wasting Hours on Sprint Reports: Automate Your Azure DevOps Sprint Reporting with Sprint Report Pro

How much time does your team spend creating sprint reports?

If you're like most Agile teams using Azure DevOps, the answer is probably "too much." Between gathering data, creating slides, formatting charts, and making everything presentable for stakeholders, sprint reporting can consume hours of valuable development time every few weeks.

There's a better way.

The Sprint Reporting Problem

Let's be honest about what usually happens at the end of each sprint:

1. Someone (usually the Scrum Master or PM) spends 2-3 hours pulling data from Azure DevOps

2. They manually create charts and summaries in PowerPoint or Excel

3. The formatting never looks quite right

4. By the time the report is finished, half the team has already moved on to the next sprint

5. Stakeholders get inconsistent reports that vary in quality and format

Sound familiar?

The irony is that all this data already exists in Azure DevOps. You're just wasting time reformatting it into something presentable.

Enter Sprint Report Pro

Sprint Report Pro transforms how teams visualise and communicate sprint outcomes in Azure DevOps. With a single click, generate professional, presentation-ready PDF reports that capture the full story of your sprint.

No more manual data gathering. No more formatting headaches. Just automated, comprehensive sprint reporting that takes seconds instead of hours.

What You Get in Every Report

Sprint Report Pro automatically generates a complete sprint report that includes:

Executive Summary

A high-level overview perfect for leadership and stakeholders who need the highlights without diving into details. This section answers the critical questions: Did we deliver? What was accomplished? What's the overall health of the sprint?

Sprint Metrics

All the key numbers that matter:

• Planned vs. completed work items

• Velocity and capacity utilisation

• Sprint burndown visualisation

• Work item distribution and flow

Team Performance Analytics

Understand how your team is working:

• Individual and team contributions

• Work item completion rates

• Collaboration patterns

• Productivity insights

Quality Overview

Keep tabs on technical health:

• Bug tracking and resolution

• Testing coverage and outcomes

• Technical debt indicators

• Quality trends

Detailed Work Item Breakdown

The complete picture of sprint activity:

• All work items with current status

• User stories and their acceptance criteria

• Task breakdown and completion

• Custom field data relevant to your process

All of this is packaged in a clear, professional PDF format that's ready to share with anyone - from your team to the C-suite.

How It Works (It's Ridiculously Simple)

1. Install the extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace

2. Navigate to the Sprint Reports tab under Boards → Sprint menu

3. Select your sprint from the dropdown

4. Choose your "closed" states (critical for accurate reporting - include any custom workflow states that represent completed work)

5. Click "Create Sprint Report"

6. Download your professional PDF in seconds

That's it. What used to take hours now takes less than a minute.

The Real Benefits: Beyond Time Savings

Yes, Sprint Report Pro saves you hours of manual work. But the benefits go deeper:

Consistency Across Sprints

Every report follows the same professional format, making it easy to compare performance across sprints and identify trends over time.

Better Stakeholder Communication

When reports are easy to generate, you're more likely to keep stakeholders informed. Better communication means better alignment and fewer surprises.

Data-Driven Retrospectives

Having comprehensive sprint data readily available makes retrospectives more productive. Instead of relying on memory, you have concrete data to discuss.

Focus on What Matters

When reporting is automated, your team can spend more time delivering value and less time documenting what they've already done.

Professional Presentation

These aren't just data dumps - they're polished, presentation-ready reports that make your team look professional and organised.

Who Benefits Most?

Scrum Masters and Project Managers: Eliminate the reporting burden and focus on facilitating great sprints instead of documenting them.

Engineering Managers: Get consistent visibility into team performance without asking your team to manually compile data.

Product Owners: Have data readily available to communicate progress to stakeholders and make informed backlog decisions.

Executives: Access clear, consistent sprint summaries without requiring your teams to spend hours creating custom presentations.

Why This Matters for Agile Teams

Agile is supposed to value "working software over comprehensive documentation." Yet we've created a world where teams spend hours documenting their sprints after they're complete.

Sprint Report Pro brings balance. You get the documentation and visibility stakeholders need without sacrificing the time your team should be spending on actual delivery.

It's not about avoiding accountability - it's about automating the busy work so your team can focus on the meaningful work.

Getting Started

Sprint Report Pro is available now in the Visual Studio Marketplace. The setup takes minutes, and you'll start seeing time savings immediately.

Stop spending hours on sprint reports. Start spending seconds.

Your stakeholders will get better reports. Your team will get more time to deliver. And you'll wonder why you didn't automate this sooner.

Ready to transform your sprint reporting?

Install Sprint Report Pro from the Visual Studio Marketplace and experience one-click sprint reporting today.

Have questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Leave a review on the Marketplace or reach out to the Elixion Solutions team.

Automate your reporting. Impress your stakeholders. Focus on delivering value.