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Task Boards are commonly sued by agile teams to manage their workload. They’re an incredibly simple tool for keeping everyone informed of where tasks are at and who’s working on them.
At the most basic level, a task boards contain three columns:
Tasks move from left to right along a task board until they end up in Done. Tasks that are in progress should always have an assignee to show who is working on it unless progress is blocked, in which case it should clearly be marked as blocked.
Some task boards might have more than one in progress column, each representing a distinct stage in the process work goes through to get to "done".
In this example, there are two in progress columns – one for development and one for testing.
Here's an example of a simple task board built in Notion...