Online Scrum Board
Visual Sprint Planning, Evolved
A single connected visual platform to collaborate on planning, tracking and running your Scrum projects.
- Intuitive visual canvas for seamless visual project management
- Real-time collaboration features to run all of your agile ceremonies
- Pre-built templates to streamline your sprints and agile workflows
Scrum Board Templates to Streamline Your Product Development from Start to Finish
Organize Big Projects into Small, Manageable Sprints
Visually organize and manage your projects and workflows with Creately’s online scrum board. Online whiteboard and sticky notes for easy user story mapping, product backlog planning, and sprint planning and multiple scrum board templates to facilitate daily stand-ups, retro meetings, and sprints online.
Build a Single Source of Truth
Centralize all scrum project information and create a single source of truth for better decision-making. Embed documents and assets with in-app previews, build wikis containing project plans, meeting notes, analysis reports, etc. and import and export data across teams on different platforms.
Connect All Teams Across the Board
Streamline remote collaboration among the members of your scrum team with powerful real-time collaboration capabilities. Real-time cursors for any number of participants and intuitive tools to run sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retros seamlessly.
A Better Way to Run Your Projects
Assign tasks to complete items in context and set estimated times and due dates for tasks and allocate resources based on availability and skill sets. Creately comes with built-in agile project management tooling and integrations for your favorite project management tools to keep work flowing.
Link, Convert and Extend Your Project Data
Effortlessly convert your product backlog items into task cards in Kanban boards, Gantt charts, or roadmaps with model objects. Extend your user stories by linking them to other resources and building on them with custom properties and additional data fields.
What is a Scrum Board?
What are the Key Elements of a Scrum Board?
An online scrum board or physical scrum board is divided into three vertical columns. These include:
1. To do - User stories and tasks that are to be commenced. These are represented as cards or sticky notes with details such as the owner and due dates.
2. Work in progress - This includes the items that the team is currently working on.
3. Done - This includes the list of completed items.
How to Create a Scrum Board?
Create your workspace in Creately and select a premade online scrum board template. Share it with the team members you wish to collaborate with.
Select the user story you and your team want to work on during the sprint and add it to the board as a card. Additional details on the card can be stored via the data fields.
Split the user stories into individual tasks and move them to the to-do column.
As the sprint progresses, move the task cards onto the correct column; from to-do to in progress to done, etc.
Once the task is completed, start working on the next card in the to-do column. To differentiate between each of the tasks, use different colors from the preset color themes in Creately.
Connect with your team on Creately to review and discuss the sprint tasks and come up with solutions for the problems faced during the sprint.
A Few Key Tips on How to Collaborate Around a Scrum Board in Creately
For all meetings, have the Creately workspace as the central reference with every member being able to collaborate in real-time.
Use the task panel to assign specific roles and responsibilities to team members.
Hold daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress and blockers using Creately’s integrations with Microsoft Teams for seamless video conferencing.
Encourage your team to provide feedback to improve the Scrum process via in-line comments, @ mentions and sticky notes.
Regularly review and update the board and track changes through smart notifications.
FAQs About the Online Scrum Board
What are the benefits of an online scrum board?
Online scrum boards are an indispensable tool for dispersed scrum teams as it allows them to collaborate in real-time on editing and updating the scrum board no matter where they are.
Online scrum boards are accessible to everyone and allow multiple team members to work on it at the same time.
They can be easily customized. With an online scrum board tool like Creately you can use models to convert the scrum board data into multiple views including timelines, kanban boards, prioritization grids, etc. that work for your working style.
They allow you to bring in and incorporate data from the other apps and tools you use.
Online scrum boards can be easily shared with anyone. If necessary you can even control access to certain stakeholders and only show needed information. With Creately you can also embed your scrum board in any app, site, or intranet with secure embed links.
What is the difference between an online scrum board and a kanban board?
How to effectively organize an online scrum board?
- Make it easily accessible to everyone involved in updating it.
- Keep it simple without adding too many columns or swimlanes. The simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.
- Use tags or color codes to differ between tasks owned by different team members or in different stages.
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