A scrum board is one of the most important tools for the scrum team to monitor their progress TO DONE.
The most basic scrum boards contain (excerpt from usefyi.com):
- Stories: User stories in the current sprint backlog (a list of work to do and experiments to try managed by the team’s product owner). These backlog items are written as user experiences with your product: “As a [user role], I want to [action] so that [benefit].”
- To do: Subtasks of stories for which the work hasn’t started yet. These are displayed as cards or sticky notes and include important details like owners and due dates.
- In progress: Subtasks the team is currently working on.
- Done: Completed subtasks, removed from the board at the end of the sprint.
FYI suggests ten virtual boards:
