Adding Work Items to a Board

There are two ways to add work items to a board:

• Add an existing work item from the backlog

• Create a new work item

Add an Existing Work Item from the Backlog

To add work items to a board, locate the work items in the Backlog column and drag them to the appropriate column/swimlane.

For Sprint PI Planning boards, work items can only be added to their corresponding team's row - so a work item from Team A's backlog can't be added to a sprint for Team B.

As you add work items to the board, you may see colorful arrows appear between cards – these are dependencies between the work items. See Managing Dependencies.

Searching the Backlog

You can search for work items in the backlog using a text search or JQL query.

Filtering the Backlog

On Sprint PI Planning boards, you can filter the backlog to see only work items for specific teams. To do so, open the Teams menu and select the teams you want to see.

This will also hide the other teams from the board. When you're ready to visualize all teams again - and any conflicts between them - open the Teams menu and select All teams.

Create a New Work Item

To create a new work item and add it to the board, hover over the bottom of a column and click the + sign.

This will open the Jira Create work item dialogue. Once created, the work item will be added to the selected location on the board.