{"id":4003,"date":"2012-11-06T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/11\/06\/eylean-board\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:38:30","slug":"eylean-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/eylean-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Eylean Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer I had the chance to play around a bit with a tool called the <a href=\"http:\/\/eyleanboard.com\/\">Eylean Board<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; an add-in for TFS that provides visual project management.\u00a0 In TFS 2012 we shipped a set of features to visually manage your backlog, sprint plans, etc.\u00a0The Eylean Board provides a similar experience but offers a\u00a0broader set of functionality (reports, configuration, flexibility)\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t ship out of the box with TFS.\u00a0 Below are some of my observations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1&#46;\u00a0Visualization<\/strong>. Most of the experience in Eylean Board is visual.\u00a0Work items are displayed as cards and can be moved through states, assigned to team members, assigned to Areas, etc. Changes made on Eylean are synchronized with TFS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2&#46;\u00a0Flexibility.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Eylean Board not only supports\u00a0our out of the box\u00a0process templates, but also offers manual configuration for\u00a0customized TFS process templates.\u00a0Project teams have different views by implementing their own mappings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3&#46;\u00a0Kanban.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Eylean also supports Kanban by allowing you\u00a0to create columns that are mapped to TFS states.\u00a0You can\u00a0map several board columns to the same state of TFS and implement WIP limits and queues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/0118.eylean_tfs_1.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/eyleanboard.com\/\">http:\/\/eyleanboard.com\/<\/a> to download a trial and give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer I had the chance to play around a bit with a tool called the Eylean Board\u00a0&#8211; an add-in for TFS that provides visual project management.\u00a0 In TFS 2012 we shipped a set of features to visually manage your backlog, sprint plans, etc.\u00a0The Eylean Board provides a similar experience but offers a\u00a0broader set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This past summer I had the chance to play around a bit with a tool called the Eylean Board\u00a0&#8211; an add-in for TFS that provides visual project management.\u00a0 In TFS 2012 we shipped a set of features to visually manage your backlog, sprint plans, etc.\u00a0The Eylean Board provides a similar experience but offers a\u00a0broader set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}