Create a new Program board in your plan

For a smoother experience, we recommend that you do some preparations before creating your Program board.

To create a new board:

1. Select Program from the left side navigation, then either:

   • select the Create program board button in the middle of the screen to begin to create your first board

   • select the dropdown menu next to the search bar, and choose Create a new Program board to create a second board

2. Enter the following information:

   1. Board name

   2. Start date

   3. Column duration and Number of columns

      1. Underneath these fields, Estimated board end date updates to reflect the overall duration of your board. Depending on how you choose to configure it, your board can span to between seven and 16 weeks.

3. Select which issues you want to schedule on your Program board using a custom field that’s been added to your plan or the Label field. If you skip this step, your board adds all issues with To do or In progress statuses. For this reason, we recommend that you groom your issues before creating a Program board.

4. Confirm your choices, then select Create.

How the Program board sorts unscheduled issues

When you first open your Program board, issues appear in the Drag issues to schedule column if:

• they have no scheduling information or

• are currently scheduled outside the scope of your board

How the Program board sorts scheduled issues

Issues with partial information are automatically placed them in the columns it thinks are most appropriate:

• If you link sprints to your Program board, issues assigned to those sprints are placed in the corresponding column

• If you don’t link your sprints and your issues have an end date (or you’re inferring sprint dates on your timeline), your board moves these issues based on the date at the top of the column

If your partially filled issues don’t meet either of these cases, they’ll show in the Drag issues to schedule column.