For both Scrum and Kanban, the board's columns are mapped to the workflow that's used by the project, and the default workflow that's created is very simple. For example, the default Scrum workflow contains three statuses—To Do, In Progress, and Done. However, this is often not enough, as projects will have additional steps in their development cycle, such as testing and review. To add new columns to your board, follow these steps:
- Browse to your project's agile board.
- Click on the Board menu and select the Configure option.
- Select the Columns option from the left navigation panel.
- Click on the Add Column button.
- Enter the name for the new column and select its category. Generally speaking, your new column will fall into the In Progress category, unless you are replacing the To Do or Done column.
- Drag and drop the new column to place it in the correct location within your development workflow.
For projects that are using the workflows that were created along with your new project (also known as a Simplified Workflow), this is all you need to do to customize your columns, as shown in the following screenshot. If you have an existing workflow and want to adapt your columns to that, then you will learn how to do this when we cover workflows in Chapter 7, Workflow and Business Process:
