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Agile Board (Taskade-style)

Build and drag cards across a simplified in-house kanban board. Practice sprint/backlog thinking. Save and share your board.
Ideal for: Anyone learning agile/scrum fundamentals who wants hands-on backlog and sprint-board practice.

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Beginner Agile Tasktade

Last updated: August 9, 2026
Getting Started with the Agile Board (Taskade-style)
Beginner · Agile / PM

๐Ÿ“‹ Getting Started with the Agile Board

Agile Board (Taskade-style) โ€” Lab 1
What you're practicing: sprint and backlog thinking on a kanban board โ€” the everyday rhythm of how agile teams organize and move work. Each step below shows a concrete example so you're never staring at a blank board wondering what to type.
  1. Click "Open" to launch the board

    You'll see columns โ€” typically Backlog, To Do, In Progress, and Done โ€” and the ability to create cards and drag them between columns.

    You should see: four empty columns and an "Add card" option somewhere on the board.
  2. Pick a small fictional project

    Don't overthink this โ€” something simple works fine.

    Example: "A personal blog website" or "A mobile weather app." A real-feeling project makes the practice stick far better than random test cards.
  3. Add 6โ€“8 realistic backlog cards

    Cover a mix of work types, and give each card a short, specific title โ€” not "Fix stuff."

    Feature: "Add a search bar to the homepage"
    Bug: "Login button doesn't work on mobile"
    Chore: "Set up the project's GitHub repo"
  4. Prioritise the backlog

    Drag your top 2โ€“3 cards to the top of the Backlog column. Ask yourself honestly: if you could only do one of these this week, which would it be, and why?

  5. Move your top cards into To Do

    This is the moment of "sprint planning" โ€” deciding what you're committing to work on next, as opposed to everything you'd eventually like to do.

  6. Move cards across columns as work actually progresses

    Move a card to In Progress when you'd genuinely be working on it, and to Done only when it's genuinely finished โ€” not "basically finished."

  7. Keep "In Progress" small

    Resist moving three or four cards into In Progress at once. Real agile teams find this one of the hardest habits to keep โ€” unfinished work in progress is invisible progress, and it hides problems.

    Try it in the demo below: drag more than 2 cards into In Progress and watch the column flag itself.
  8. Write a one-line acceptance criterion on each card

    Turn "looks finished" into something specific and checkable.

    Example: for "Add a search bar," write: "Done means a user can type a keyword and see matching results โ€” not just that a search box exists on the page."
  9. Save your board

    Save it once it reflects a realistic small sprint โ€” a handful of prioritised cards, a small To Do, and clear acceptance criteria.

Tip Write acceptance criteria into each card's description โ€” "done" should mean something specific, not just "looks finished." A card without a clear definition of done is one of the most common reasons real sprints run long: everyone agreed the card was "in progress," but nobody agreed on what "done" actually meant.

๐Ÿงช Try it right now

A mini working kanban board โ€” drag the cards between columns. Watch what happens when In Progress gets too full.

Backlog 0

Add a search bar to homepage
Set up GitHub repo
Login button broken on mobile

To Do 0

Design homepage layout

In Progress 0

Done 0

Drag any card into a new column. The "In Progress" column turns red once it holds more than 2 cards โ€” that's the WIP limit warning real teams use.
CRMNuggets · Practice Tools · Agile Board Guide

Intermediate Agile Taskkade

Last updated: August 9, 2026
Lab 2: Run a Full Sprint (Intermediate) โ€” Agile Board
Intermediate · Agile / PM

๐Ÿ” Lab 2: Run a Full Sprint

Agile Board (Taskade-style) โ€” builds on Lab 1
What you're practicing: in Lab 1 you prioritised a backlog once. Now simulate an entire sprint from planning to done โ€” including the messiness real sprints actually have.
  1. Build a bigger, more realistic backlog

    Create 10โ€“12 cards for your fictional product, spanning features, bugs, and chores โ€” enough variety that not everything can obviously fit in one sprint.

    Example spread: 5 features, 4 bugs, 3 chores โ€” mixing quick wins with bigger, vaguer cards.
  2. Hold a mini "sprint planning" session

    Read through your backlog and pick the 5โ€“6 cards you genuinely believe are small enough to finish in one sprint. Move only those into To Do โ€” leave the rest in Backlog on purpose.

    You should end up with: roughly half your backlog still sitting untouched โ€” that's intentional, not a mistake.
  3. Work through the sprint over several sittings

    Even a few minutes apart counts as a "day" of the sprint. Move cards through In Progress to Done as you complete each one โ€” resist moving everything at once at the end.

  4. Deliberately let one card get stuck in In Progress

    Pick one card and don't finish it for a while, the way real work sometimes stalls on a dependency or unexpected complexity.

    Try: ask yourself what you'd actually do on a real team when a card stalls โ€” flag it, ask for help, or split it into a smaller piece?
  5. Count your actual completion rate

    At the end of the sprint: how many of your original 5โ€“6 planned cards genuinely reached Done? Write the number down โ€” use the tracker in the demo below to see it worked out for you.

  6. Reflect honestly on any gap

    Were the cards too big? Did something unplanned interrupt you? Did you plan too optimistically? There's no wrong answer โ€” the goal is noticing, not judging yourself.

  7. Save your board
Tip Not finishing everything you planned is completely normal for a first sprint estimate โ€” the real skill agile teams build is noticing the gap and adjusting the next sprint's planning accordingly, not forcing everything to "look done" by the deadline.

๐Ÿงช Try it right now

A pre-loaded sprint board with a mix of card sizes. Move your planned cards through the columns and watch the velocity tracker update.

Backlog 0

Add user profile page
Write API docs
Fix broken image links

To Do (planned) 0

Add search bar
Fix login on mobile
Set up CI pipeline
Add password reset
Broken checkout button

In Progress 0

Done 0

Planned this sprint 5
Finished (Done) 0
Completion rate 0%
The 5 cards moved into "To Do (planned)" already are your sprint commitment. Drag them through In Progress to Done and watch your completion rate change โ€” try leaving one behind on purpose, like a real sprint often ends up.
CRMNuggets · Practice Tools · Agile Board โ€” Lab 2 (Intermediate)

Expert Agile Taskade

Last updated: August 9, 2026
Lab 3: Retro & Velocity Tracking (Expert) โ€” Agile Board
Expert · Agile / PM

๐Ÿ“ˆ Lab 3: Retro & Velocity Tracking

Agile Board (Taskade-style) โ€” builds on Labs 1 & 2
What you're practicing: the two habits that actually make agile teams improve sprint over sprint โ€” an honest retrospective, and comparing velocity across sprints to see whether a change actually worked.
  1. Calculate your rough velocity from Lab 2

    Look back: how many cards did you plan for that sprint, and how many actually reached Done? That completion ratio is a rough personal "velocity" โ€” a measure of how much realistic work you can actually get through in a sprint.

    Example: planned 6, finished 4 โ†’ velocity โ‰ˆ 67%.
  2. Run a personal sprint retrospective

    Write down, honestly:

    Went well: "I finished the bug fixes quickly."
    Didn't go well: "The feature card was way bigger than it looked."
    Change to try: "Break any card that touches more than one screen into two smaller cards."
    Not: a vague change like "work harder" โ€” the change has to be something you could actually point at happening differently next sprint.
  3. Start a second sprint, applying that one change

    Build a fresh backlog (or reuse leftover cards from Lab 2), and this time actually apply your retro change โ€” for example, planning fewer cards, or splitting big cards before the sprint starts.

  4. Run sprint two the same way you ran sprint one

    Move cards through the columns as real work would progress, and let it run over more than one sitting.

  5. Track your velocity again at the end of sprint two

    Count planned vs. finished, exactly as you did in Lab 2. Use the calculator below to compare both sprints side by side.

  6. Write one honest sentence about whether your change helped

    It's fine if the answer is "not really" โ€” that's still a useful, real finding, and it's exactly what a real retro is for.

  7. Save both sprints and your retro notes

    Save this as your final project for this tool.

Tip Velocity is only useful for comparing YOUR OWN team (or in this case, yourself) to its own past โ€” never for comparing different teams to each other. The number itself means nothing without the history behind it; two teams can have wildly different velocities and both be doing great work, because velocity depends entirely on how each team happens to size its own cards.

๐Ÿงช Try it right now

Write a quick retro, then enter your planned/finished numbers for both sprints to see the velocity comparison โ€” exactly what you'll do with your own board.

Sprint 1

Planned
Finished

Sprint 2 (after your change)

Planned
Finished
CRMNuggets · Practice Tools · Agile Board โ€” Lab 3 (Expert)