--- sourceDocument: Australia Strategic Portfolio Management sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-business-management Release : - australia ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - Australia Strategic Portfolio Management ft:clusterId : - itbm bundleId : - itbm workflow : - Technology --- # Scrum program planning board # Scrum program planning board {#ariaid-title1} * Release version: Australia * * Updated March 12, 2026 * * ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 6 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Scrum program planning board The Scrum program planning board in Agile Board provides a centralized interface to plan, schedule, and review work across multiple scrum teams within a program. It helps ServiceNow customers efficiently coordinate sprint workload, manage epics and stories, and visualize dependencies to ensure aligned delivery across teams. Show full answer Show less ## Key Features * **Program selector:** Choose and edit scrum programs to manage associated teams and information. * **Program timeline:** Navigate timelines horizontally or via forward/back controls for sprint scheduling. * **Epic Backlog filter:** Filter stories by selected epics to analyze workload distribution across sprints. * **Configuration panel:** Toggle visibility of team backlogs and story dependencies for clearer planning views. * **Story dependencies:** Visualize prerequisites and dependent stories with color-coded indicators (green for correctly sequenced, red for scheduling conflicts) to identify and resolve planning issues. * **Epic Backlog pane:** View, edit, and add stories to epics, and access epic descriptions for context. * **Scrum teams:** View and update team details, including members and capacity, and add sprints directly from the planning board. * **Team backlog lane:** Manage stories assigned to teams but not yet scheduled into sprints, enabling workload visibility and flexible planning. * **Team sprint lanes:** Display sprint cadences with details like duration, story points, and capacity; sprints can be edited directly from the board. * **Story cards:** Represent stories visually, allowing drag-and-drop assignment to teams and sprints; supports editing story details and viewing linked records when the Agile Development --- Unified Backlog plugin is enabled. * **Sprint workload capacity bar:** Shows planned workload versus team capacity for each sprint to help balance assignments. * **Zoom and Search:** Adjust board view scale and filter stories by number or description to focus on relevant work items. * **Stories list view:** Access a comprehensive list of all program stories for detailed review. ## Key Outcomes Using the Scrum program planning board, ServiceNow customers can streamline coordination among multiple scrum teams by visualizing and managing their collective workload in one place. This leads to improved sprint planning accuracy, better dependency management, and enhanced ability to adjust team capacities and sprint schedules dynamically. The board's interactive features such as drag-and-drop story assignment, direct sprint addition, and dependency visualization help teams stay aligned and deliver program goals efficiently. Use a centralized view on Agile Board to plan work for the teams that are working on your scrum program. Agile Board has a program planning board where you can plan, schedule, and review work for your scrum teams. The planning page contains the following components that guide you during your planning process. Program selector : Select a program that you want to plan or review. After you select a program, you can add teams or update other information by clicking the edit icon (![Edit icon.]()). Program timeline : Navigate the program timeline by scrolling horizontally or by using the forward (![Forward icon.]()) and back (![Backward icon.]()) icons. Epic Backlog filter : Select an epic backlog that is associated with your scrum program. You can filter the stories on the program planning board and the epic backlog pane. By analyzing the workload for just these selected epics, you can understand how the workload is scheduled across sprints. Configuration panel : Turn on or off the following components on the planning board by using the configuration panel icon (![Configuration panel icon.]()). Team backlog : Enables you to show or hide the team's backlog lane. Story dependencies : Enables you to visually analyze dependencies between the stories of different sprints and teams by using the story dependency lines. You can use the dependencies option to show or hide these dependency lines. If you choose to hide the dependencies or if the dependencies involve a story that's not on the board, you see a colored border on the story card. The color of the dependency indicates the way you've scheduled the stories. * Green: The prerequisite story is scheduled in a sprint first. Then, the dependent story is scheduled in a later sprint. * Red: The dependent story is scheduled in a sprint first. Then, the prerequisite story is scheduled in a later sprint. Review the dependency and reschedule the story as required. {#planning-scrum-program-overview__ul_t4m_h1x_4mb}If none of the stories have a prerequisite or dependent story that is associated with them, the dependencies option is not visible. For information on how to add story dependencies, see [Add dependencies for Agile Development 2.0 stories](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/2XvoG7wb4KUsZVEIA7fJZw "Add prerequisite and dependent items for stories in Agile Development 2.0 so that you can visualize these dependencies on the scrum planning board and plan your sprints accordingly."). Epic Backlog pane : Enables you to see a list of all the epics that are based on the filter criteria in the epic backlog definition. For more information, see [Create an epic backlog](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_1QFIZYeMo4JkBRZsHIdXA "Categorize epics into epic backlogs by defining a set of filters according to your preferences. While planning your scrum program, you can use these epic backlogs to plan for only those stories that belong to the epics in this backlog."). In the backlog pane, you can do the following actions for an epic: * View the epic description. * View the unassigned and unscheduled stories of the epic as cards with their short descriptions and story points. * Edit the epic's information by clicking its name. * Add a new story to the epic by clicking Create Story. {#planning-scrum-program-overview__ul_mtg_wty_klb} Scrum teams : View all the teams that are involved in the selected scrum program toward the left of the planning board. You can update a team's information, such as the team members, group capacity, or description, by clicking the team's name. If your teams do not have sprints added to them, or if you want to add more sprints, you can [Add sprints from the program planning board](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/QiT5rHNPECOZZqt4dBN7Xw "Add sprints to your scrum teams directly from the scrum program planning board without having to navigate to another module.") directly. Team backlog lane : Enables you to see the stories that are assigned to the team but these stories aren't scheduled yet into any sprint. While planning your scrum program, if you know which stories must be assigned to the team but you don't know what sprints to use. In that case, you can move these stories to the team's backlog lane. By doing so, you can have a clear idea of the team's workload for the upcoming sprints and then eventually add these stories to the correct sprints. You can also unplan a story that has already been scheduled to a sprint by dragging the story card back to the team's backlog. Use the backlog lane on the planning board to see which team has the story. Then, decide which sprint to schedule it in. If you want to unassign a story from a team, you can drag the story card and drop it back into the epic backlog lane. Team sprint lanes : Enable you to see the sprint cadences of the teams. Pointing your cursor to a sprint's name shows you its details such as the duration, total story points, and filled capacity. You can edit details, such as group capacity and planned start and end dates, by clicking the sprint name. While planning your scrum program, if you know the sprint in which the story would be worked on, you can move the story card to that sprint. Story cards : Enable you to see the stories of the epics from your scrum program in the form of cards. You can move these cards around to assign them to teams and to plan them into sprints. If you have activated the Agile Development --- Unified Backlog plugin (com.snc.sdlc.agile.multi_task), you can also see stories that were added from the triage board to your unified backlog. From the planning board, you can double-click a story card to open it in a pop-up window and edit its details. If the story is created from a record on the triage board, such as a defect, you can see both the story information and the defect information side-by-side. Note: Stories can be created from enhancements, defects, incidents, or other such records only if you have activated the Agile Development --- Unified Backlog plugin (com.snc.sdlc.agile.multi_task). Sprint workload capacity bar : Plan a sprint efficiently. The bar, which is under a sprint name, indicates the workload that is planned for the team versus the team's capacity for that sprint. Pointing your cursor to the sprint name gives you additional details. Zoom in and zoom out : Adjust the board view using the zoom in icon (![Zoom in icon.]()) and the zoom out icon (![Zoom out icon.]()). Search : Filter the stories on the planning board using a search term. For example, you can enter a story number or a phrase from a short description. Stories list : View a list of all stories of the program using the standard list view icon (![Standard list view icon.]()). * **[Plan a scrum program](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/3vsw0rPpDKoxworybotsWw)** Plan work for sprints, using a centralized view on Agile Board, of multiple scrum teams that are working together on a scrum program. * **[Add sprints from the program planning board](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/QiT5rHNPECOZZqt4dBN7Xw)** Add sprints to your scrum teams directly from the scrum program planning board without having to navigate to another module.