Planning Board

Product Backlog Planning

The list of user stories, requirements, defects and features is called the Product Backlog. SpiraTeam lets you organize the backlog by component, package or priority. You can order and categorize them by simple drag and drop editing. This is called backlog grooming.

Release Planning

The release planning view lets you manage the backlog of the different releases in parallel. You can visually see which features are going to be delivered in each release, with the ability to make adjustments by simply dragging and dropping items between the releases.

Sprint / Iteration Planning

The requirements, user stories, tasks, test cases and outstanding bugs and issues can be scheduled against the different iterations / sprints in the release. The system will calculate the available effort as items are added.

The epic view lets you see the user stories associated with each of the epics in the current release or sprint:

Scrum Task Boards

SpiraTeam includes Scrum Task Boards that let you see the individual tasks assigned to each of the Sprints and Iterations as well as by-person:

The user story view lets you see the tasks associated with each of the user stories in the current release or sprint:

This view lets you quickly see all of the current user stories being worked, and the progress of completing the related tasks, in a single unified view.

Kanban Boards

SpiraTeam provides a Kanban view of the project, where you can see all of the requirements planned for each release organized according to their position in the lifecycle. This view lets you see the flow of the requirements and identify then rectify any bottlenecks:

This allows you to manage the number of backlog items at each stage of the process and also load-balance the members of the project team.

SpiraTeam includes the ability to set Work In Progress (WIP) limits for each status so that you can limit the throughput of work in each release and sprint.

Resource Allocation

SpiraTeam lets you drill down into each release, iteration or sprint and view the items assigned to each person in the project. This allows the story cards to be easily assigned and re-assigned as necessary to load-balance the team’s workload.

The system provides colored progress bars that visually represent the completion of each story card as well as alerting the project manager to items that have started late or are projected to finish late.

Issue Tracking Boards

SpiraTeam includes the ability to display the list of bugs and defects in the system in a similar Agile Kanban board, so that you can easily plan and track the support and maintenance activities on the project.