How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

  1. Launch the PartsUnlimited team portal and navigate to the work hub. Open the Stories board and click on the gear icon to configure the team settings.    
  2. The Columns section in the Settings dialogue allows you to configure board columns. Rename the Active column to Analyze and update the Definition of done section:
  1. Add a new column for Develop, Test, Deploy, and Feedback, and map this to the work item state Active. The WIP limit should be set to limit overloading a specific team will more work than they can deliver at one time, which would only end up creating a bottleneck in your delivery workflow. You can also track bugs on the board, since you have the option of mapping a different workflow for bugs:
  1. Navigate to the Swimlanes section in the team settings dialogue. Add a new swimlane and name it Emergency. While urgent issues will follow the same workflow for delivery, the swimlane allows you to give them better visibility:
  1.  Next up, use the fields section to add the fields you would like to see on the cards in the Kanban board. A good idea might be to include the field for Value Area. With this change, the cards on the backlog will display the value area the work item delivery is contributing to. 
  1. Use the styles and tag colors section to define styling rules using a combination of fields and values. It might be a good idea to create a styling rule to show the card background as red if there is a tag that's blocked, for example. This can be done by using the following styling rule: