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 central workspace for managing scrum processes, including backlog management, sprint planning, and sprint progress tracking. It is designed to streamline the key activities of scrum teams and requires appropriate user roles such asscrumadmin,scrummaster,scrumproductowner, orscrumsprintplannerfor access.
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Backlog Management
The Backlog tab allows users to manage personalized backlogs efficiently. Key capabilities include:
- Creating user stories, epics, and themes.
- Viewing all active stories assigned to a team but not yet scheduled in a sprint.
- Using visual cards to identify stories lacking story points or acceptance criteria, with the ability to drill down into those lists.
- Reordering stories across multiple pages to prioritize work effectively.
- Filtering stories by epics, with progress bars indicating epic completion status.
- Personalizing visible columns and performing keyword searches to quickly find relevant stories.
Sprint Planning
The Sprint Planning tab enables teams to organize and schedule their work through sprints. Practical features include:
- Creating, editing, starting, monitoring, and completing sprints.
- Viewing sprints in chronological order along with key metrics such as planned dates, story points, group velocity, and progress.
- Dragging and dropping stories from the backlog into sprints to plan workload.
- Adding new stories to the backlog and setting their implementation order.
- Managing unfinished stories by moving them from completed sprints back into the backlog or to future sprints.
Sprint Tracking
The Sprint Tracking tab provides multiple views to monitor sprint progress in real time:
- Story board: Displays current sprint stories across lanes representing different states. Users can move stories between lanes to update their status and filter stories by criteria.
- Task board: Focuses on scrum tasks within sprint stories, allowing users to move tasks between lanes to update their states and filter tasks accordingly.
- List view: Shows scrum tasks and tests for current sprint stories in a list format, enabling users to add tasks and tests, view their status, descriptions, assignees, and pending items without leaving the context of the record.
These views help teams keep track of sprint progress, identify bottlenecks, and ensure all tasks and tests are completed before closing the sprint.
The Agile board is a landing page where you can perform key actions of the scrum process such as 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