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Create an agile team

Last update: Tue Oct 22 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Adobe Workfront enables agile teams to complete work in an incremental, organized way.

Any user in the organization can see the agile team and view all agile components for the team, including the backlog, iterations, story board, and individual stories. However, only members of the team with Edit access to work can make changes to work assigned to the team.

Workfront supports the following agile methodologies:

  • Scrum: Teams have a backlog of work that needs to be done. When the team is ready to work on a specific chunk of work, the work is moved from the backlog to an iteration. For more detailed information about managing a Scrum team, see Scrum in an agile team.

  • Kanban: Teams move work in the Kanban view across predetermined statuses. Default statuses are: backlog, in-process, and done. For more detailed information about managing a Kanban team, see Kanban in an agile team.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

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Adobe Workfront plan Any
Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

Current:

  • Plan to create a new agile team

  • Work or higher to convert a team to an agile team

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Decide on an agile methodology

You can use either a Scrum or Kanban agile methodology for your agile team. Each methodology provides various benefits. The way your agile team works determines the agile methodology you choose to use.

Both Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies in Workfront allow you to move stories across a story board to indicate a status change and progress of the story.

Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies in Workfront differ in the following ways:

Benefits of using Kanban in Workfront

The Kanban agile methodology in Workfront enables you to more easily move stories across an agile story board while limiting the amount of work in progress. There are no start and end dates when using the Kanban agile methodology.

The following functionality supports this methodology:

Benefits of using Scrum in Workfront

The Scrum agile methodology in Workfront enables you to add a set of stories to an agile iteration and create a story board for that iteration. The iteration is based on the start and end dates that you define.

The following functionality supports this methodology:

  • Include issues on the Scrum story board
  • Include issues on the backlog of an agile team
  • Subtasks can be displayed on the Scrum story board
  • View a burndown chart to see progress against stories during the iteration
    For more information, see Agile burndown chart overview.

Create an agile team

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Teams.

  2. Click the Switch Teams icon Switch team icon , then click Create new team.

    Select Create new team

    The New Team box displays.

  3. Specify the following information:

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    Team Name Type a name for the new agile team.
    This is an Agile Team Select this option to configure this new team to be an agile team.
    Is Active Select this option to activate this team. Inactive teams are not visible to other users to assign to work.
    Group

    Begin typing the name of a group to add to the team, then select the name when it appears in the drop-down list.

    NOTE

    When a team is assigned to a group or subgroup, any group administrators of that group or subgroup can manage the team without being a member of the team. Group administrators can go to the Teams area from the Main Menu and click the Switch Teams arrow Switch team icon to list all of the teams that are assigned to the groups that they manage.

    Team Members Begin typing the name of a user to be on the team, then select the name when it appears in the drop-down list.
    Repeat this process to add multiple users to the team.
    Because users can be on more than one team, they can be on both agile and non-agile teams.
    Description

    Type a description for the team.

    The description displays on the top right of the Teams area when the team is selected.

    If the description is long, you can click it to display the full description in a pop-up. If you have access to edit the team settings, you can also edit the description directly in the pop-up.

  4. Click Create.

    For information on configuring an Agile team, see the following articles:

Convert an existing team into an agile team

You can convert an existing team to be an agile team:

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Teams.

  2. Click the Switch team icon Switch team icon , then either select a new team from the drop-down menu or search for a team in the search bar.

  3. Select the team that you want to convert to an agile team.

  4. Click the More menu, then select Edit.

    Only team members with a Standard, Plan, or Work license see this option.
    Select Edit

  5. In the Agile section, select This is an Agile Team.

  6. In the Methodology section, select whether the team will be using a Scrum or Kanban agile methodology.

  7. Click Save Changes.

    The team is saved as an Agile team. You can configure the new team as a Scrum or a Kanban team when you edit the team.

    For more information, see the following articles:

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