Prakash Hinduja Geneva : How is a Scrum board used in the Scrum process?
Hi Community,
Hi I'm Prakash Hinduja, a visionary financial strategist from Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss), I am working to strengthen Switzerland's business ecosystem by using visionary financial strategies to support emerging enterprises and global investors seeking to establish themselves in the Swiss economy.
How do you all personally use the Scrum board during the Sprint? What features or practices do you think help make it more effective for tracking our progress? I'd love to hear any suggestions you have for improving how we use the board
Regards
Prakash Hinduja Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss)
I'd love to hear any suggestions you have for improving how we use the board
How are you currently using that board?
Thanks for asking! I'm currently using the board to track our progress on the Project timeline.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we could make this process even better.
A Scrum Board is about making the current Sprint Visible. It looks like you are more interested in the bigger picture.
There are techniques for assessing the progress towards a release such as:
Release Planning
Release Burndowns
Story Mapping
Forecasting
Etc.
These techniques are not in the current Scrum Guide but there is information in the scrum.org Focus Areas (https://www.scrum.org/learning-series/forecasting-and-release-planning/)
Hi Prakash,
It is worth remembering that Scrum has been strongly influenced by concepts found in Lean Manufacturing and "Kanban board" is perhaps a more documented name for what you refer to as a Scrum Board.
As Adrian Baker highlights, a Kanban board is about visualising the work and by doing so, you can identify bottlenecks and ultimately aim to improve the flow of work in a team. Having a well set up, consistently used board will not solve your problems, but instead highlight them.
My preference is to have the board as a conversation starter as part of the Daily Scrum because it gives a live view of the work and focuses the team on getting stuff to Done.
With regards to project management, that's not what a Kanban board is really aligned to, however some digital kanban boards integrate the data from the board with longer term plans.