Dashboards

Structure of a dashboard

Almost without exception, Agile projects use dashboards to provide insight into the progress and the amount of work in progress. As a rule, such dashboards consist of columns representing the different steps in the life cycle of work items in iterations, releases, or the entire project. Each work item is displayed in a single column. Once the status of a work item changes, it’s moved to the appropriate column on the dashboard.

For most projects, the dashboard consists of sticky notes on a wall, one work item per note. Often, different colors are used for different types of work items. Yellow for user stories, green for ...