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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...
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The Sprint ends when the timebox expires. If the team finishes their forecast early (and meets the Sprint Goal) the team should agree with the Product Owner some additional PBIs that they should complete.
The sprint backlog is a list of tasks identified by the Scrum team to be completed during the Scrum sprint. During the sprint planning meeting, the team selects some number of product backlog items, usually in the form of user stories, and identifies the tasks necessary to complete each user story.
The Sprint Backlog management is done by the Development Team. Best practices include using the Daily Scrum to update the Sprint Backlog every day. The team should be communicating regularly to realize dependencies or impediments based on the work they complete.
Sprint items not completed will go back to the Product Backlog. Depending on the prioritization the items may be candidates for next sprint or later sprints to be pulled by the teams into their sprint backlog.
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.
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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.
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