Board

A Board is used to display and update issues of the project using the Agile methodology. There are two types of boards available: Scrum and Kanban. When you create a board, you associate it with an issue query and the issues returned by the query are added to the board. You can create your own board or use a board created by a team member.

In a board, you update issues by moving them to different progress states of the board. Each progress state has some pre-defined conditions that specify which issues can be assigned to a progress state.

Scrum

In a Scrum board, tasks are broken small actions to be completed in fixed duration cycles, called as Sprints.

Kanban

In a Kanban board, tasks are managed with a focus on continuous delivery.

Sprint

A Sprint is a short duration (usually, a week or two) during which your team members try to implement a product component.

You add the product component related issues to a sprint. When you start working on a product component, you start (or activate) its related sprints. To update issues of a sprint, you must first activate the sprint and add the sprint to the Active Sprints view.

Story Points

A Story Point is a metric that defines the relative effort of work and helps to understand how complex the issue is.

Backlog view

In a Scrum board, the Backlog view displays issues of the board, active and inactive sprints of the board, and the sprints from other boards that contain issues matching the board’s query.

Each sprint lists issues added to it. The Backlog section (the last section of the Backlog page) lists all open issues that aren’t part of any sprint yet. The Backlog view doesn’t show the resolved and closed issues.

In a Kanban board, the Backlog view displays active issues (issues being actively worked on) in the Active Issues section and a backlog list of issues (issues aren’t being actively worked on) in the Backlog section. The Epic issues don’t appear in the Backlog view.

Active Sprints view

Available in a Scrum board, the Active Sprints view lists all active sprints of the board and enables you to update an issue status by dragging and dropping it to the respective status columns.

Active Issues view

Available in a Kanban board, the Active Issues view enables you to manage the progress of active issues.

Reports view

Displays various reports and charts that summarize the progress of issues.