Creating and configuring our board
In this section we're going to talk about creating and configuring our board.
In this section we're going to talk about the following:
- Differences between a virtual scrum board and an actual scrum board
- The columns that represent workflow states and how to modify a workflow
- Swimlanes
- Estimation options–time versus story points
Let's go ahead and go over to JIRA. We can see what we've done here is we've actually taken our items that were not in our Ready
Sprint. They have not been refined, and we have taken them and pulled them into a Sprint 0
, which is a test Sprint. This will eventually be the Sprint that we'll put on our Sprint board, but in the meantime, we have to get our board ready. We can see that what we've done here is we've actually assigned story point values to each of these stories. We will be able to see them in the screenshot in gray, and we can also see them in the preview pane as well:

Backlog view
The following screenshot represents our Active...