--- title: "Sprint Calendar" description: "Planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros in one shared sprint calendar. Virto Shared Calendar opens in a browser or in Teams and shares by link." url: https://www.virtosoftware.com/use-cases/sprint-calendar/ language: en-US last_modified: 2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00 translations: de: https://www.virtosoftware.com/de/use-cases/sprint-calendar/index.md --- # Sprint Calendar Stay in sync and sprint with style: planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros in one shared sprint calendar, color-coded, in a browser or in Microsoft Teams, and shared by link with the whole team. ![Sprint Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/sprint-calendar-hero.webp) Trusted by Industry Leaders Warner Bros. Disney Sony UC Berkeley Motorola Teck Resources US Treasury University of Pittsburgh NASA Stockholms Stad FedEx Zespri and over 8,000 businesses worldwide ## Plan Sprints in Minutes, Not Meetings 5+ hours saved every sprint: Sprint dates, ceremonies and time off in one calendar instead of a round of messages before every planning session ## Sprint Calendar Solutions by VirtoSoftware Ready to tame the sprint chaos? Virto Shared Calendar puts sprint dates and every ceremony (planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros) on one color-coded calendar your team opens in Microsoft Teams or in a browser. The work inside the sprint stays on your board. ### Your sprint calendar doesn’t have to be a mess [Virto Shared Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-teams/virto-teams-shared-calendar/) Put sprint start and end dates next to planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros, with a public-holiday feed and who is out alongside, all in one agile sprint calendar, tagged and color-coded. ![Your sprint calendar doesn’t have to be a mess](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/sprint-calendar/your-sprint-calendar-doesnt-have-to-be-a-mess.webp) ### Sprint planning that feels less sprinty [Virto Shared Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-teams/virto-teams-shared-calendar/) Look ahead before planning: the next sprints, the holidays from an iCal feed and the time off your team entered sit on one calendar, so the next sprint is planned around them. ![Sprint planning that feels less sprinty](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/sprint-calendar/sprint-planning-that-feels-less-sprinty.webp) ### Collaboration that actually collaborates [Virto Shared Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-teams/virto-teams-shared-calendar/) Devs, PMs and product owners open the same calendar in Microsoft Teams, in a browser or on a phone. Members edit the ceremonies; stakeholders and contractors view them from a link, no Microsoft account needed. ![Collaboration that actually collaborates](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/sprint-calendar/collaboration-that-actually-collaborates.webp) ## Key benefits ### Predictable delivery cycles Set a solid sprint schedule so your team can plan, estimate, and ship on time—no more “surprise” deadlines or last-minute scrambles. ### Improved team sync With one central sprint planning calendar, everyone’s on the same page—from developers to product owners to that one stakeholder who always forgets the meeting time. ### Top flexibility Priorities changed (again)? No problem. Adjust your sprint calendar on the fly—without breaking flow or losing focus. ### Increased transparency The sprint calendar shows what is scheduled and when, tagged and color-coded, so there’s no confusion about when planning starts, when the review is, or whether the retro is on Thursday or Friday. ### Sprint smarter every time Use each sprint as a learning opportunity. Every retro has its fixed slot on the calendar, so you can tweak your process and keep improving with every cycle. ### Bottlenecks in plain sight Spot scheduling bottlenecks before they bottleneck. Time off and holidays sit next to the sprint, so you see who is out before you commit the work. ## When Virto Shared Calendar fits — and when it does not | Real-life scenario | Best fit | Why it works | | --- | --- | --- | | Sprint dates and ceremonies in one calendar — A small team runs two-week sprints, and the ceremonies are scattered across separate invites. | Virto Shared Calendar | Add the sprint as an event, and planning, daily stand-ups, the review and the retro as recurring events, each with its own tag and color. The whole cadence reads at a glance in Teams or in a browser. | | Sprints next to holidays and time off | Virto Shared Calendar | Add a public-holiday feed in iCal format, or a teammate’s Outlook calendar through its .ics link, so a sprint that runs into a long weekend is visible when it is planned. | | A sprint that slips by a week — Priorities changed (again) and the dates have to move. | Virto Shared Calendar | Move the sprint and its ceremonies to the new dates, and everyone who opens the calendar sees the change. Members edit events; stakeholders only view them. | | Stakeholders, contractors and a partner team | Virto Shared Calendar | Send stakeholders a view-only link that opens with no Microsoft account and no login, or share the calendar with a partner company’s Microsoft 365 tenant. | | The work inside the sprint — The sprint backlog is kept in a SharePoint list. | Virto Kanban Board App | Virto Shared Calendar shows when things happen, not the work itself. Virto Kanban Board App turns the sprint list into a board with custom columns, swimlanes and WIP limits, and its Burndown chart shows the work remaining. | | Story points, velocity and capacity | A dedicated agile tool such as Azure DevOps or Jira | The calendar shows when sprints and ceremonies happen. Estimates, velocity and capacity planning stay in the agile tool your team estimates in. | ## Related products Explore how our set of productivity tools can transform your task management - [Virto Calendar App M365](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-365/virto-calendar-overlay-app/): Consolidate events from SharePoint, Exchange, Google, and more into one calendar view for simplified planning. - [Virto Shared Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-teams/virto-teams-shared-calendar/): Virto Shared Calendar is a standalone web app and Microsoft Teams-integrated solution designed for simple event management with tagging, color-coding, and anonymous sharing. - [Virto Calendar App](https://www.virtosoftware.com/microsoft-teams/virto-calendar-app/): Maximize efficiency with this calendar app, featuring comprehensive scheduling and customizable views. ## Related use cases Discover our range of use cases to take your planning and coordination to another level ![Availability Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/availability-calendar.webp) ### Availability Calendar Virto Calendar App draws every team member's calendar in one Outlook view — busy time, vacations and shared meetings, under the permissions each source already has. ![Customer Support Schedule](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/customer-support-schedule.webp) ### Customer Support Schedule One shared rota for on-call shifts, PTO and night rotations, tagged by tier. Agents check it in Teams or on a phone, and part-timers or partners open it from a link, no Microsoft account needed. ![Payroll Calendar](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/payroll-calendar.webp) ### Payroll Calendar One shared payroll calendar for HR and finance: pay dates, timesheet cutoffs and filing deadlines, tagged and color-coded, in a browser or in Teams. Payroll itself runs in your payroll system.