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Add board features and epics

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Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019

If you track progress on your backlog with a board, you can also use boards to track epics and features.

And, as with child task checklists for backlog items, you can quickly define and track the progress of child items for your features or epics. Here we see several stories defined for features, both in progress and completed.

For more information, see Define features and epics.

Web portal, Features board with several user stories defined

Prerequisites

Boards are automatically created when you create a project or add a team. Each team has access to their own product and portfolio boards as described in About teams and Agile tools.

  • You must connect to a project. If you don't have a project yet, create one.
  • You must be added to a team or project.
  • To add work items and exercise all board features, you must be granted Basic access or higher.
  • To view or modify work items, your View work items in this node and Edit work items in this node permissions set to Allow. By default, the Contributors group has this permission set. For more information, see Set permissions and access for work tracking.
  • Users with Stakeholder access for a private project can add work items and update status through drag-and-drop, but cannot update fields displayed on cards. They can add tasks and change task status.
  • Users with Stakeholder access for a public project have full access to board features just like users with Basic access.
  • You must connect to a project. If you don't have a project yet, create one.
  • You must be added to a team or project.
  • To add work items and exercise all board features, you must be granted Basic access or higher.
  • To view or modify work items, your View work items in this node and Edit work items in this node permissions set to Allow. By default, the Contributors group has this permission set. For more information, see Set permissions and access for work tracking.
  • Users with Stakeholder access for a private project can add work items and update status through drag-and-drop, but cannot update fields displayed on cards. They can add tasks and change task status.
  • You must connect to a project. If you don't have a project yet, create one.
  • You must be added to a team or project.
  • To add work items and exercise all board features, you must be granted Basic access or higher.
  • To view or modify work items, your View work items in this node and Edit work items in this node permissions set to Allow. By default, the Contributors group has this permission set. For more information, see Set permissions and access for work tracking.
  • Users with Stakeholder access can't exercise these board features: add work items, drag-and-drop work items to update status, or update fields displayed on cards. They can add tasks and change task status.

Open your board from the web portal

Your board is one of two types of boards available to you. For an overview of the features supported on each backlog and board, see Backlogs, boards, and plans. To switch to the product backlog, choose Stories backlog. And, to switch to the taskboard, choose Sprints and then choose Taskboard.

  1. (1) Check that you selected the right project, (2) choose Boards>Boards, and then (3) select the correct team from the team selector menu.

    Screenshot showing Open your board.

    To choose another team's board, open the selector and select a different team or choose the Browse all team boards option. Or, you can enter a keyword in the search box to filter the list of team backlogs for the project.

    Screenshot showing Choose another team's board.

    Tip

    Choose the star icon to favorite a team board. Favorited artifacts ( favorited icon) appear at the top of the team selector list.

  2. Select Features or Epics from the backlog selector menu.

    Choose portfolio backlog level, Features or Epics

Add epics or features

Add new items to a feature or epic through the item's Action menu. For descriptions of fields used to support features and epics, see Define features and epics.

Screenshot showing Web portal, Feature board, Open the context menu of a feature to add a story.

When you have many items to add, keep entering your task titles and press Enter. If you have details you want to add about to a work item, hover over the item and press Enter.

REST API resources

To programmatically interact with a board and other team settings, see the REST API, Boards reference.