You can create an agile board in YouTrack and customize its settings to support different agile methodologies.
Whether you follow scrum, kanban, or a combination of the two, the board is flexible enough to accommodate.
You can create and share a board with your team, or build a personal board to track your own work.
This procedure walks you through the basic steps. For more detail, browse the other topics in this section.
Prerequisites
The only permission that is required to create an agile board in YouTrack is Read Issue.
As long as you have permission to read issues in a project, you can create a board and monitor the progress of issues in the project.
To create and configure a board that you and your team can use to update issues in a project, you need permission to perform a wider range of actions.
If you encounter any problems when you follow this setup, check that you have access to the following permissions:
Action
Permission
Add projects to the board
Read Project
Share board with other users
Read Group
Create a saved search for the backlog
Create Tag, Saved Search or Report
Share the backlog search with other users
Share Tag or Saved Search
To create an agile board:
Click the Agile Boards link in the header.
One of two things happens:
If you have access to an existing board, either this board or the board that you last viewed is displayed.
If you have no available boards, the Create an Agile Board
page opens. In this case, skip to step 3.
Click the Create button, and select Board.
Select a template:
Template
Description
Scrum board
Pre-configured for scrum development teams.
Automatically set for tracking feature development over a series of scheduled sprints.
Kanban board
Pre-configured for teams that follow a kanban methodology.
Also a great option for personal boards.
Version-based board
Pre-configured to link sprints to the value in a custom field that stores a version type.
Designed to mimic the behavior of agile boards in earlier versions of YouTrack where you can use a query to filter the visibility of cards on the board.
Custom board
Generated with a default configuration that you adjust to any work flow.
The New Board page opens.
Enter a name for the new board.
Add projects that you want to manage on the board.
Configure the visibility settings of the board. Select the groups whose members can view and use the board and edit board settings.
By default, the Can View and Use Board and Can Change Board Settings settings are set to Me only.
This means that the new board is private and available only to you.
Configure the backlog for the new board. You can either create a saved search to use as the backlog or use an existing search.
To create a new saved search:
Select the Create new button.
The saved search is assigned the name <Board Name> Backlog.
If you want to assign the saved search another name, edit the value in the Saved Search Name field.
A query for the new saved search is generated with the following format:
