Manage team backlog in EAP
Using the Backlog page of Enterprise Agile Planning, create, update, and prioritize work items. Additionally, schedule work items into iterations such as Planning Intervals (PI) or Sprints.
The following sections provide a brief overview of EAP Backlog and the actions that you can perform in it.
Layout and default grouping
The layout of Backlog across different team levels such as Agile Team, Agile Release Train (ART), Solution Train, or Portfolio, remains the same. The change is in the way that the work items are grouped. As you go bottom to top in an Agile structure, the work assigned to the teams is grouped as follows:
- Agile Team: Grouped by Sprints.
- ART: Grouped by Planning Intervals.
- Solution Train: Grouped by child ARTs.
- Portfolio: Grouped by child Solution Trains.
By default, the number of iterations that the Backlog page displays is set to 6. You can work with your admin to modify this number using a system property. For more information, see Configure the display limit of iterations in EAP Backlog.
Layout and default grouping for Kanban teams
- Portfolio: Assigned work items are grouped by child teams. Any work item that is not assigned to the child teams is displayed in the Backlog section.
- Team: Assigned work is displayed in a list.
Default work items
The work items shown in Backlog are of the Type that is mapped for this team in the configuration. As you move up in your Agile structure, the level of the work assigned also increases. At an Agile Team level, you see information of stories. As you move up through ARTs and Portfolios, you see information of Features, Capabilities, and Epics. However, at any level, you can change the type of the work items displayed.
For example, in the screenshot, Capability is the default item type mapped to Compliance and onboarding tech Solution Train based on its configuration. You can change this selection to see work of other types assigned to this team. When this selection is changed to Feature, you can see all the features assigned to this ART. Similarly, you can choose to create and assign a different type of work item for this Solution Train, even though its default item type is Capability.
View the details of any work item in the side panel by selecting its primary column. To access all the fields and related lists of the work item, select Full details from the side panel.
Column-level filtering of data
Quickly find the work items that you need by using column-level filters for the data on your EAP Backlog. Using the Column filtering option (
), you can filter data on any column displayed on the Backlog tab, which is of the type choice, string, or reference.
Actions within the Backlog
- Create iterations such as PIs or Sprints for your teams.
- Add work to the team's Backlog.
- Schedule work from Backlog into different iterations.
- Make in-line edits to update information of work such as Status, Assigned to, or Story points.
- Reorder planning items (in a section) to prioritize them.
However, reordering is not possible when the planning items are grouped. For example you grouped the items in the Backlog section by State, you won't be able to reorder the items unless the grouping is removed.
- Start and complete those iterations.
- Move incomplete work to the Backlog.
- Filter the data that's displayed.
- Choose the columns to be displayed.
- Open a work item in a new tab.
Use the following tasks to start creating and scheduling work for teams in EAP.