Agile board in Agile Development 2.0
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Summary of Agile Board in Agile Development 2.0
The Agile board serves as a centralized landing page for managing key scrum processes, including backlog management, sprint planning, and sprint progress tracking. Users must possess specific roles, such as scrumadmin, scrummaster, scrumproductowner, or scrumsprintplanner, to access its features effectively.
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Key Features
- Backlog Tab: Manage personalized backlogs by creating stories, epics, and themes; view active stories not assigned to sprints; reorder and filter stories by epic; assess epic completion through a progress bar; and personalize columns for better visibility.
- Sprint Planning Tab: Create and manage sprints by organizing stories, viewing start/end dates, and tracking story points and team velocity. Users can drag stories to sprints and adjust backlog order as necessary.
- Sprint Tracking Tab: Monitor current sprint progress through various views:
- Story Board: Track stories across lanes and update their states.
- Task Board: Manage scrum tasks for stories, allowing movement across lanes and filtering by criteria.
- List View: View and add scrum tasks and tests, assess their states, and manage pending items before sprint closure.
Key Outcomes
Utilizing the Agile board allows teams to streamline their scrum processes, enhance collaboration, and maintain clear visibility of progress and workload. Customers can expect improved efficiency in backlog management, sprint planning, and real-time tracking of tasks and stories, ultimately leading to more successful sprint outcomes.
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