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Using the Program Board

This article explains how to use the Program board in Agility.

Overview​

The Program Board summarizes cross-team feature level dependencies throughout your iterations or sprints so you can identify and focus on the cross-team communications that matter most. You can use this board to verify your planning sessions and to track the delivery progress throughout the program increment or release.

Beginning in the Fall 2017 release, the Program Board has date-based options that enable the definition of a cadence that is different from the Sprint or Iteration schedule being used by the Teams

At a Glance​

At a glance, you can:

  • see which teams are delivering work for a specific feature (portfolio item) and when it will be delivered based on the stories or backlog items in planned iterations.
  • determine which portfolio items have not been planned.
  • see which teams are responsible for delivering the portfolio item in the program increment or release.
  • see dependencies across teams and portfolio items.
  • see which features are being delivered out of order.
  • see portfolio items that have work planned into Iterations beyond the planned end date.
  • see portfolio items that have work in another program increment or release.

ProgramBoard

Refer to the Understanding the Program Board Layout and Indicatorstopic for additional explanations.