Agile board in Agile Development 2.0
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Summary of Agile board in Agile Development 2.0
The Agile board in Agile Development 2.0 serves as a centralized landing page for managing key scrum activities such as backlog management, sprint planning, and sprint progress tracking. It is designed to streamline the scrum process and requires specific user roles likescrumadmin,scrummaster,scrumproductowner, orscrumsprintplanner.
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Backlog Management
- Create and manage stories, epics, and themes within personalized backlogs.
- View and reorder active stories assigned to teams but not yet assigned to sprints.
- Use visual cards to monitor stories lacking story points or acceptance criteria, with quick access to those lists.
- Filter stories by epic and track epic completion via progress bars and percentages.
- Personalize backlog columns and use keyword search for efficient filtering.
Sprint Planning
- Create, edit, organize, monitor, start, and complete sprints from the Sprint Planning tab.
- View sprints in chronological order alongside details such as planned dates, story points, group velocity, and sprint progress metrics.
- Drag and drop stories from the backlog into sprints to prioritize work.
- Move unfinished stories from completed sprints back to the backlog or into future sprints for seamless sprint transitions.
Sprint Tracking
The Sprint Tracking tab offers multiple views to monitor sprint progress effectively:
- Story Board: Track stories across workflow lanes; moving stories updates their state. Supports filtering by search criteria.
- Task Board: Track scrum tasks for current sprint stories; moving tasks updates story states. Filtering is available.
- List View: Display scrum tasks and tests with details like state, description, assignee, and test results. Tasks and tests can be added directly, and pending items identified before sprint closure.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
Using the Agile board in Agile Development 2.0 enables ServiceNow customers to efficiently manage backlogs and sprints within a single interface, improving transparency and control over scrum processes. The multi-tab structure supports seamless transitions between planning and execution, while the role-based access ensures appropriate permissions. Visual indicators and flexible views help teams track progress accurately, facilitating timely decision-making and continuous delivery.
The Agile board is a landing page where you can perform key actions of the scrum process. These actions include managing your backlogs, planning your sprints, and tracking the sprint progress.
The Agile board is organized in the following tabs to help you manage these activities. You would require one or more of the scrum_admin, scrum_master, scrum_product_owner, or scrum_sprint_planner user roles.
Backlog
- Create stories, epics, and themes.
- View all active stories that are assigned to a team but that are not assigned to any sprint.
- View cards indicating the total number of stories, stories that do not have story points,
and stories that do not have acceptance criteria in your backlog.
Clicking any of these cards gives you a list of stories from that category.
- Reorder stories in the backlog across pages.
- Filter the stories by epic by using the Records by epic section.
In this section, only those epics are listed, which belong to the stories of the selected backlog.
- The epics for the stories from your backlog are listed in this section.
- Epic completion is indicated by a progress bar and percentage.
- You can show or hide this section by selecting the configuration icon (
).
- Personalize columns by using the personalize icon (
). - Use the search option to filter stories using a keyword.
Sprint Planning
The Sprint Planning tab of the Agile board shows the team backlog and sprints as sections, which contain the list of stories. You can create, edit, and plan for sprints using the options available in this tab.
- Create, organize, monitor, start, and complete sprints.
- View current and future sprints in chronological order.
- View planned start and end dates, story points, percentage group velocity, and the number of story points (total, complete, and pending) for the current sprint.
- Assess stories in the backlog and drag them to sprints.
- Add stories to the backlog and set up their order of implementation.
- Move unfinished stories from the completed sprint to the backlog or to a future sprint.
Sprint Tracking
- Story board
- Track all the stories of the current sprint across lanes.
- Move a story from one lane to another, which updates the state of the story.
- Filter stories by search criteria.
For more information, see Track progress of stories for a sprint in Agile Development 2.0.
Figure 3. Sprint Tracking in the Story board view - Task board
- The Task board enables you to track all the scrum tasks for stories of the current sprint
across lanes. You can:
- Move scrum tasks from one lane to another, which updates the state of the stories.
- Filter scrum tasks by search criteria.
For more information on tracking your scrum tasks using the board view, see Track progress of scrum tasks for a sprint in Agile Development 2.0.
Figure 4. Sprint Tracking in the Task board view - List
- The List view displays scrum tasks and tests for the stories of the current sprint. In the
List view, you can:
- Add scrum task and tests without leaving the context of the record.
- View the state, short description, and assignee of the scrum task.
- View the short description and result of a test.
- Assess scrum tasks and tests that are still pending before the current sprint is closed.
For more information on tracking a sprint's progress using the List view, see Track sprint progress in Agile Development 2.0.
Figure 5. Sprint Tracking in the List view