Principles

Agile project management is based on simple and intuitive management techniques.

Story Cards

Story card

Story tasks

Story progress

Backlog visualization

Your product or sprint backlog can be visualized in different ways:

• Desk view
• Grid view
• Task board
• Tree map

Desk view can be zoomed or moved across a screen. This view is imitation of real board with cards that are freely movable and resizable.

Fully maximized desk view

Desk view maximized to story card size

Task board view is perfectly usable for daily sprint meetings. It is imitation of boards preferred by many teams where are displayed not only stories, but tasks too. Tasks can be moved to different columns. This move will assign a new status to task.

Treemap view - if your backlog contains many stories and you need to concentrate on some parameter, use treemap. You can quickly determine stories that are most important or that are huge in size, etc. Stories can be grouped into group.

Concentrate on the size and you will see your top stories. Concentrate on colors and you can see priority, more darker orange, higher priority, white is lowest priority.

Concentrate on the size and the color and you can quickly find top priority (dark orange color) story that is hardest to complete (it is biggest because size is effort).

You can group stories by Release or Sprint and size of the group is size of your work that must be done.

Detail of the story can be displayed by click on the rectangle.

You can read more about the treemap's usage in blog entry by Mike Cohn.

No groups, size of rectangles by story points, color by cards' color	Group By release, size by estimated duration, color by story state	Group by theme, size by estimated duration, color by story state
No groups, size by effort, color by priority	Same as on the left picture, grouped by sprint	Group by team, size by remaining duration, color by story's state
Group by theme, size by remaining, color by team	Group by sprint, size by effort, color by priority	Group by month, size by estimated duration, color by story card's color

Timeline

Project calendar view is displayed by timeline. On the timeline user can see all important project events (sprints, releases, demo dates).

Current sprint can be easily changed by click on the sprint marker. Stories and tasks can be dragged to sprint indicator. This will move, split or create a new story.