How do you visualize your sprint backlog? [closed]

Question

Most Scrum teams have some sort of whiteboard or other board upon which the stories/tasks for the current sprint are visualized.

I'm curious as to how people organize this board? Do you use post-it notes? Are they color-coded? How do you group tasks? How do you distinguish the state of tasks? Etc...

Answer 1

I've seen groups use a whiteboard, and use different colors for each group of tasks.

If you use note cards for your stories, you can put them up there as well, and divide them by release/iteration/group of tasks. This concept is explained better here.

Update: I also use spreadsheets to visualize my sprints/iterations, because my team is not all co-located. I use tables and graphs similar to what was mentioned in Jim's answer.

Answer 2

Not for everyone, but for those running TFS, Scrum For Team System provides excellent sprint backlog reports.

Failing that, Ive personally maintained sprint backlogs using a spreadsheet, as per this article. Sharing via something along the lines of google docs.