Backlog Software for Agile Project Management
Backlog software is a vital agile project management tool for teams. From ideation to launch, Jira helps software teams manage, prioritize, and track all projects on a single platform so your team can focus on moving work forward. Key features include timelines, agile reports, comment threads, bug tracking, and more.
Task tracking
Backlog software improves transparency and accountability for agile teams. Manage and track any work that’s in flight, and gain visibility into what’s coming down the pipeline. Get started with Jira’s task tracking template.
User story management
User stories are the narrative explanation for the use of a feature, which articulates the value the feature has for the end-user. Jira makes it easy to create, organize, and prioritize user stories directly from the backlog.
Progress monitoring
Keep projects on track and hit deadlines with Jira by monitoring project progress directly from the backlog.
Collaboration
Backlog software gives teams the visibility they need to collaborate more effectively. With Jira, software teams can easily move work forward knowing they have a single source of truth for all information and communication.
Resource allocation
Backlog software helps you visualize workloads and priorities so you can easily determine if teams have the resources to achieve their goals.
Scrum vs. Kanban backlogs
The agile methodologies, Kanban and Scrum, leverage two different types of backlogs. When practicing Kanban, teams leverage the first column of the board as their backlog. They capture and visualize all tasks as cards. When practicing Scrum, teams have a backlog that’s separate from the board. Only tasks that are being worked on during a sprint are displayed on the board. Software teams can leverage Jira to support either agile methodology.
Importance of backlogs for Agile project management
Effective backlog management ensures the team is on track to deliver the most customer value. Product backlogs prioritize user stories for sprint planning, and agile project managers can effectively organize their sprints around customer needs.
Continuous improvement
Continuous improvement refers to the process of making incremental changes to the product based on new learnings A well-maintained backlog supports this ongoing iterative development process by capturing feedback and insights from both internal teams and customers Jira accommodates any workflow designed for continuous improvement and integrates with other Atlassian tools, such as Confluence.
Prioritization
Backlog software enables teams to prioritize the improvements and features that offer the most customer value.
Transparency
Backlogs can be a single source of information for all project updates, reducing ambiguity and providing teams with the visibility they need to make confident, informed decisions.
Accountability
Team members are assigned tasks in the backlog, giving each person ownership of their tasks and motivating them to work efficiently.
Create backlogs with Jira
Our cloud-based backlog software allows teams to stay on top of their work and speed up their project velocity.