5 Tips for Structuring your Agile Board

Lessons learned from over 100 retros and 4 teams to improve focus and delivery

The thing I find fascinating is there are hundreds of thousands of agile teams out there. Those teams are reflecting on their workflow to understand how they can improve their product development meaning there are literally millions of learnings every year.

Some of these learnings manifest in how the teams structure their boards (digital or physical) and given many of us share similar challenges there are lessons we can share. For me, the Agile board is the centre of the team’s workflow. It’s a point you can gather around, celebrate successes and clear blockers. When I’m visiting friends at other companies I always take quick mental notes on how they structure their agile (or scrum) boards because I’m the kind of geeky person.

I’ve taken part in over 100 retrospectives across multiple teams and this board is a synthesis of some of those learnings. Inputs also came from the many fantastic Agile Coaches I’ve worked with, Agile Meetups and various Medium articles over the years. Our current board (to the left) is the product of all…