From the course: Agile Foundations
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Prioritize with a taskboard
From the course: Agile Foundations
Prioritize with a taskboard
So you've seen how important it is for Agile teams to prioritize high value work. They need to first focus on the features that the customer will always use. Then once those features are complete, they can move on to some of the less valuable or lower priority work. One way that these Agile teams help visualize this work is by creating something called a task board. A task board is a simple swim lane diagram. The reason it's called a swim lane diagram is because it has vertical columns that look a little bit like a swimming pool. Now each of these columns, or swim lanes, holds a small batch of work. Typically these are called tasks. Whichever column the task is in shows the status of that task. The simplest task board would only have three columns, to do, doing, and done. If your team has a background in lean thinking, then they might call these columns work queues. Now a typical Agile team will write broad statements of customer value in the form of a user story. Then the team will…
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