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Jira Software Essentials

You're reading from   Jira Software Essentials Plan, track, and release great applications with Jira Software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833516
Length 192 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Understanding the Kanban board

For those who are familiar with the Scrum board in Jira Software, the Kanban board will look very similar to the work mode of the Scrum board, with only a few differences:

  • There is no backlog view. The backlog is the first column on the board—new issues will be added straight into the Backlog column.
  • There are no active sprints. Since Kanban does not have iterations, you are always in the working view.
  • Some of the columns may have a minimum and maximum number, which appear next to the column name.
  • Some of the columns may be highlighted in red or yellow, as shown in the following screenshot, where the In Progress column is highlighted in red:

So, let's take a closer look at the Kanban board and see why we have these differences. First of all, as explained in the earlier section, Kanban does not use discrete time periods, such as iterations...

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