Usability enhancements from Agile Development 1.0 to Agile Development 2.0

Agile Development 2.0 offers a few usability enhancements over Agile Development 1.0.

Important:

Agile Development 1.0 and its features such as Sprint burndown chart and release burndown chart are deprecated and no longer available. Agile Development 2.0 provides the latest experience for supporting your Agile work methodology.

Manage and groom your backlog

Flexible backlog definition

Agile Development 2.0 enables you to define backlogs. For example, you can create different backlogs by products or teams, or combine backlogs for one or more epics.

Backlog grooming

Agile Development 2.0 provides an advanced view for your backlog, where you can drag stories to rank them. Also, you can view backlogs by epics and get analytics about the overall backlog situation. For example, analytics of stories without acceptance criteria.

Enhanced sprint planning experience

Agile Development 2.0 provides a single view for your backlog and sprints. Drag stories from the backlog to sprints to perform sprint planning in an interactive manner.

Note:

Though the Planning Board in Agile Development 1.0 has not been deprecated, you can use the Sprint Planning tab in Agile Development 2.0. For release planning, use the Backlog tab in which you can multi-select stories, and assign them to a release.

Figure 1. Example of the Planning Board in Agile Development

Figure 2. Assigning multiple stories to a release in Agile Development 2.0

Sprint Tracking

Agile Development 2.0 leverages the visual task boards feature to track the progress of stories in a sprint. It also provides the ability to create scrum tasks from the tracking view.

Note:

The Task Progress Board UI does not appear as a tab in Agile Development 2.0. You may type Task Progress Bar in search panel in navigator to invoke the UI, for tracking the progress of scrum tasks.