Create a new Program board in your plan

For a smoother experience, we recommend that you do some preparations before creating your Program board.

To create a new board:

1. Select Program from the top nav.

2. From the dropdown menu next to the search bar, select Create a new Program board.

3. Name your board, choose a start date, and then set the Column duration and Number of columns. Your board can span to between 7 and 16 weeks.

4. Choose what work items you want to include in this view.

   1. If you’ve groomed your work items and marked them with a field or a label, select that field and value to only bring in work items that match.

   2. If you leave this empty, your board adds all work items in your plan with To do or In progress statuses.

5. When you’re ready, select Create.

How the Program board sorts work items

When you first open your Program board, work items appear in the Drag issues to schedule column if:

• they have no scheduling information or

• are currently scheduled outside the scope of your board

Work items with partial information are automatically placed them in the columns it thinks are most appropriate:

• If you link sprints to your Program board, work items assigned to those sprints are placed in the corresponding column

• If you don’t link your sprints and your work items have an end date (or you’re inferring sprint dates on your timeline), your board moves these work items based on the date at the top of the column

If your partially filled work items don’t meet either of these cases, they’ll show in the Drag work items to schedule column.