Zoho Sprints provides a default board with columns: To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Done. Project administrators can add, rename, or reorder columns to match their workflow. Team members drag cards across columns during the sprint as work progresses. Daily standups use the board as the focal point, with each member reporting on what moved since the previous day. The board also shows assignee avatars and due dates directly on each card.
The scrum board is the primary day-to-day interface for any team running a sprint in Zoho Sprints. It is most effective during daily standup meetings where the team identifies blockers quickly. Remote teams across Indian cities like Mumbai, Pune, and Bengaluru rely on the board to maintain visibility without requiring synchronous check-ins.
Keep the number of custom columns to five or fewer to avoid over-engineering the workflow. A large “In Progress” column with many stalled cards is a signal that the team has taken on too much work in progress. Use swimlanes to separate stories by assignee or epic if the board becomes visually crowded.
A Delhi-based fintech company customises their Zoho Sprints scrum board with columns: Backlog, Development, Code Review, QA, and Done, matching their internal release process. During the daily standup, the scrum master screens the board and the team spots that three cards have been stuck in Code Review for two days, prompting an immediate discussion to unblock them.
Yes. Project administrators can add, rename, reorder, and delete columns in Zoho Sprints to match any workflow. The only column that cannot be removed is Done, as it is used to calculate sprint completion metrics and the burndown chart.
By default the board shows only the active sprint’s items. You can switch between sprints using the sprint selector at the top of the board view, which is useful when reviewing a recently closed sprint during a retrospective.
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