The Scenario
You are the scrum master for a six-person engineering team. The sprint ended yesterday. In today's retrospective you want to show which days the team coded the most and the least, which projects absorbed the bulk of effort, and whether the distribution matched what was planned in the sprint kickoff.
Your retrospective doc links to a Google Sheet. You want that sheet populated before the 10 AM meeting. It is 8:45.
The bad version:
- You log into WakaTime, set the date range to the sprint window, and try to read daily totals off the chart. The chart does not show project breakdown. You switch to the summary table, which aggregates the whole sprint, not day by day.
- You export the full CSV, open it, filter to the sprint dates, pivot by date and project, and realize the pivot is grouping by user instead of by team total because the CSV includes per-user rows.
- You abandon the pivot and start manually summing hours for each day in the 14-day range. You finish at 9:52, the table is in, and you forgot to add the Top Language column entirely.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands what you are looking at, and through its built-in WakaTime integration it pulls daily summaries directly — no CSV pivot, no manual summing.
Your sheet has the sprint start and end dates in A1 and A2. Paste this:
Fetch WakaTime daily summaries from the sprint dates in A1:A2 and fill this sheet with Date, Total Hours, Top Project, Top Language — one row per day
What You Get
- One row per day in the sprint window, in date order.
- Total Hours as a decimal for that day across all projects.
- Top Project is the project with the highest hours for that day.
- Top Language is the language with the highest hours for that day.
- Days with zero coding activity appear with 0 in Total Hours — useful for spotting blocked or off days.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want per-project-per-day granularity, not just the top project
You need to see all projects for each day, not just the leading one:
Pull WakaTime daily summaries for the sprint dates in A1:A2. Give me one row per project per day with columns: Date, Project, Language, Hours — one row per unique date-project-language combination.
You want to compare this sprint to the previous sprint
The previous sprint dates are in C1 and C2:
Fetch WakaTime daily summaries for the current sprint in A1:A2 and the previous sprint in C1:C2. Put the current sprint data in columns A through D, and the previous sprint data starting in column F — same structure: Date, Total Hours, Top Project, Top Language.
You only want days that exceeded a coding threshold
You consider a day "productive" if total hours exceeded 4 across the team:
Pull WakaTime daily summaries for the sprint dates in A1:A2. Only include days where Total Hours is greater than 4. Fill this sheet with Date, Total Hours, Top Project, Top Language.
Full retrospective table with productivity flags in one shot
Fetch WakaTime daily summaries for the sprint dates in A1:A2. For each day, write a Productivity column: "Strong" if Total Hours exceeds 6, "Normal" if between 3 and 6, "Light" if under 3. Sort by Total Hours descending. Fill this sheet starting at row 3 with Date, Total Hours, Top Project, Top Language, Productivity.
The sheet is ready before the retrospective opens.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your sprint retrospective sheet before the next meeting — ask it to pull WakaTime daily summaries for the sprint window and flag productivity levels, and you will have the table in seconds rather than the last 15 minutes before standup. See also how to import daily coding summaries from WakaTime, or return to the WakaTime integration overview.