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 support scrum roles including scrumadmin, scrummaster, scrumproductowner, and scrumsprintplanner.
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Backlog Management
The Backlog tab enables you to efficiently manage personalized backlogs by allowing you to:
- Create stories, epics, and themes.
- View all active stories assigned to a team but not yet included in any sprint.
- See summary cards highlighting stories missing story points or acceptance criteria, with drill-down capability.
- Reorder stories even across multiple pages.
- Filter stories by epics associated with your backlog, with visibility into epic completion progress.
- Personalize column views and use search to filter stories by keywords.
Sprint Planning
The Sprint Planning tab provides tools for organizing and managing sprints and the team backlog:
- Create, edit, start, monitor, and complete sprints.
- View current and upcoming sprints in chronological order, including start/end dates, story points, group velocity, and sprint progress metrics.
- Drag and drop stories from the backlog into sprints for planning.
- Add new stories to the backlog and prioritize them.
- Move unfinished stories from completed sprints back to the backlog or future sprints to ensure continuous workflow.
Sprint Tracking
The Sprint Tracking tab offers multiple views to monitor sprint progress effectively:
- Story board: Track current sprint stories across lanes, update story states by moving stories between lanes, and filter stories by search criteria.
- Task board: Manage scrum tasks associated with sprint stories, update task states by lane movement, and apply filters to focus on specific tasks.
- List view: View scrum tasks and tests for sprint stories, add new tasks and tests within the context of the record, and monitor the status and assignee information. This view helps identify pending tasks and tests before sprint closure.
This structured approach enables ServiceNow customers to streamline their agile processes, maintain clear visibility into sprint and backlog status, and ensure efficient sprint execution aligned with scrum best practices.
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