For those who are familiar with the Scrum board in Jira Software, the Kanban board will look very similar to the work mode of the Scrum board, with only a few differences:
- There is no backlog view. The backlog is the first column on the board—new issues will be added straight into the Backlog column.
- There are no active sprints. Since Kanban does not have iterations, you are always in the working view.
- Some of the columns may have a minimum and maximum number, which appear next to the column name.
- Some of the columns may be highlighted in red or yellow, as shown in the following screenshot, where the In Progress column is highlighted in red:
So, let's take a closer look at the Kanban board and see why we ...