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Boards

Boards are an excellent tool for visualizing and managing your workload in an agile manner, promoting collaboration and efficiency within a team.

In DoneTonic, there are two types of boards:

Kanban Board: The Kanban board is a visual tool that helps organize and manage tasks efficiently. It allows users to visualize the workflow, identify the status of tasks (to-do, in progress, completed), and collaborate easily with the team.

Sprint Board: The Sprint board in Scrum is a visual representation of progress during a defined work period (Sprint). It displays Product Backlog items (PBIs) and their corresponding tasks assigned to the Sprint, their status, and facilitates daily planning and review, enabling the team and users to monitor and adjust project progress.

Here’s how to work with each of them:

1. Sprint Board

A Sprint board is specifically used in Scrum teams to manage and coordinate work during a sprint. The main objective of this board is to provide a clear and concise view of the team’s progress toward achieving the goals set for the sprint.

In DoneTonic, a Sprint Board is created automatically when the sprint is created.

Learn how to work with the Sprint Board:

  1. In the top section, you’ll find all the Sprint information:
    • Creation date and review date details
    • Progress bar to visualize how much is left to finish the Sprint
    • Task details and pending work estimation
  2. On the left column are the PBIs included in the Sprint.
  3. The upper columns indicate the states. These are editable in each team. (Edit them in Navigation Menu > Team > Settings > States)
  4. Cards represent tasks for each PBI. Remember that in DoneTonic, we work with the Scrum methodology, where the main unit of work is the PBI, breaking down into smaller tasks assigned to different team members and completed during the sprint.
  5. Move tasks across the board as the team progresses.

It’s not always the ideal scenario, but it can happen that a team doesn’t meet the goal of completing all PBIs within the sprint time. In that case, you have the option to move unfinished PBIs to a new Sprint Board. You can do this in two ways:

  1. Clicking on the button in the top bar “Move Active PBIs.”
  2. After the sprint review date, if there are open PBIs, you’ll find a notification on the board. Click there.

Learn more about the detailed view of tasks here.

Boards

Boards are an excellent tool for visualizing and managing your workload in an agile manner, promoting collaboration and efficiency within a team.

In DoneTonic, there are two types of boards:

Kanban Board: The Kanban board is a visual tool that helps organize and manage tasks efficiently. It allows users to visualize the workflow, identify the status of tasks (to-do, in progress, completed), and collaborate easily with the team.

Sprint Board: The Sprint board in Scrum is a visual representation of progress during a defined work period (Sprint). It displays Product Backlog items (PBIs) and their corresponding tasks assigned to the Sprint, their status, and facilitates daily planning and review, enabling the team and users to monitor and adjust project progress.

Here’s how to work with each of them:

1. Sprint Board

A Sprint board is specifically used in Scrum teams to manage and coordinate work during a sprint. The main objective of this board is to provide a clear and concise view of the team’s progress toward achieving the goals set for the sprint.

In DoneTonic, a Sprint Board is created automatically when the sprint is created.

Learn how to work with the Sprint Board:

  1. In the top section, you’ll find all the Sprint information:
    • Creation date and review date details
    • Progress bar to visualize how much is left to finish the Sprint
    • Task details and pending work estimation
  2. On the left column are the PBIs included in the Sprint.
  3. The upper columns indicate the states. These are editable in each team. (Edit them in Navigation Menu > Team > Settings > States)
  4. Cards represent tasks for each PBI. Remember that in DoneTonic, we work with the Scrum methodology, where the main unit of work is the PBI, breaking down into smaller tasks assigned to different team members and completed during the sprint.
  5. Move tasks across the board as the team progresses.

It’s not always the ideal scenario, but it can happen that a team doesn’t meet the goal of completing all PBIs within the sprint time. In that case, you have the option to move unfinished PBIs to a new Sprint Board. You can do this in two ways:

  • Clicking on the button in the top bar “Move Active PBIs.”
  • After the sprint review date, if there are open PBIs, you’ll find a notification on the board. Click there.

Learn more about the detailed view of tasks here.

2. Kanban Board

The main purpose of a Kanban board is to provide clear and real-time visibility of the status of each task, from start to finish. It consists of columns and cards representing tasks or activities to be done.

In DoneTonic, you can use the Kanban board in both Kanban and Scrum teams. When creating a Kanban team, a board is created automatically. If you want to add another board or add a Kanban board to a Scrum team, go to the Navigation Menu > Team > Click the three-dot button in “More Options” and select “+ New Board.”

How to interpret the Kanban board:

  1. In the top section, you have board information such as Pending Tasks and Dedicated Hours.
  2. The upper columns indicate task statuses (these are 100% configurable in each team).
  3. The right column allows grouping tasks by Importance, Tag, Assignment, or due date. You can modify the grouping preference from the “Group by Importance” menu located in the top bar of the board
  4. Cards represent tasks. You can see the importance, estimation, due date, and assignment in them. Learn more about tasks here.

Board view: