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Add columns and swim-lanes to Kanban board

Add columns and swim-lanes to Kanban board - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Azure DevOps for Beginners

Add columns and swim-lanes to Kanban board

- [Instructor] The purpose of the kanban board is to visualize the flow of work. So your job as a team is to visualize what kind of work you do and where you hand off regularly as the team progresses from the backlog into a shippable state. So you'll have these stages as you go through your work. Microsoft has made some assumptions about what those stages are. So we've got the New Stage, Develop, which is subdivided into two sub-columns, Build and Test and Done. And you can add your own columns or you can rename the ones that are shown here. To rename them, you go to the settings and go to Board, columns, click on this, and then change the name here. This is also whether you specify if the column is split into the two sub-columns, Doing and Done. So we're going to add our own column because our team uses some extra steps between Develop and built. That's our code review step. So I'll click on New column, type in…

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