Creating New Board Tasks
Once you have set up your board, you can start creating your board tasks or cards as they are often called. Board tasks are used to represent user stories, ideas or tasks. For instance, if you have set up your board to track your to-list, each task will represent something that needs to get done. In the case of a sprint board, there will be a mixture of cards representing the user stories and cards that represent the different tasks that need to get done to complete the user stories.
Creating a task is very simple. Click on the New Sprint Task (or New Kanban Task button depending on the type of your board) in the top navigation bar or click on the + icon of the status column you want to add a new task to.
You will then be presented with the following dialogue.
The only required information to create a new task is the task title but see the below table for more details on what each field means.
Title | the name of the task |
See Description | the task description (if the field is collapsed, click on 'See description' to expand it) |
Task Type | the type of task (these values are fully customisable and can be configured by the board owners) |
Points | the points effort that will be required to complete the task |
Impact | the impact value that the task has |
Priority | the task priority |
Due Date | the task due date |
Impediment | flag to indicate whether the task is an impediment for the completion of the process |
Assigned To | the task assignee/s (see section below for more information on assignees)
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Theme | the theme associated with the task (these values are fully customisable and can be configured by the board owners) |
Add to | which board or backlog the task should be added to |
Status | current status of the task |
Properties | as explained in this article, tasks can be customised to hold a wide variety of additional information required to fully capture the task details. The property section will list all the properties that have been set up by the board owners. |
Checklist | checklist of all to-do points for the task |
Attachments | supporting documents that can be attached or linked to the task |
Once you are satisfied that all information has been entered correctly, click on Create & Close if you do not have more tasks to record or click on Create to capture your next task. The task will then appear on your board. You can drag and drop the cards across lists to show progress, click on a card to update it or click on the chat icon to add comments.
That's it!