Scrum Boards and the Scrum Team
The Scrum Board is an important component of the Scrum framework. This board is used by Agile teams to track their development work within time-boxed iterations called Sprints. The Scrum Board shows all backlog items that need to be completed within the current Sprint. Team members use the board by completing work and making updates continuously throughout each Sprint.
Scrum team members typically makes updates to the board daily because of progress made the previous day. The board’s layout consists of rows and columns, where each row contains user stories (units of work), and columns that show the status. Scrum boards provide a fast, simple view of the user stories selected for a Sprint that the development team is working on and have been completed.
Every row on the Scrum board contains user stories that represent product backlog items that have been selected during Sprint Planning. The following is a description of the columns on the board:
- The “Story” column identifies the user story that is ready to be worked on by the development team.
- The “To Do” column represents tasks that that need to be completed.
- The “Work in Process” column represents tasks that are currently being worked on.
- The “To Verify” column represents tasks that need to be verified and tested.
- The “Done” column represents completed tasks.
Recommended Further Reading
The following materials may assist you in order to get the most out of this course: