From the course: Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards
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Sizing the task board
From the course: Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards
Sizing the task board
- In Agile, it's very important to size the work in each sprint. It's a key part of how the team plans out the project. That's another reason that the task board is an essential information radiator. For Scrum teams, it's a report of the developer's workload. The board shows all the work for that sprint. That means that after two weeks, the team will clear the board and start over. The board acts as a constraint on the team. The team should never be working on stories that aren't on the board. It represents what the team can deliver in two weeks. So, if something is added to the board, that means that something needs to fall off. You can't overstuff a sprint. That's why the task board is fixed after sprint planning. It would be very difficult to prioritize the work if new stories were added while the team was working. In many ways, this is the same problem as multitasking. Remember that multitasking usually creates more…
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