Changing priorities, approaching deadlines, and teams to coordinate: agile project management requires visibility at every stage. Tuleap’s backlog is the agile project management tool that brings your product backlog, epics, user stories, sprints, and releases together in one place. It helps teams stay on track from requirements through to delivery.
What Tuleap’s backlog brings to your teams:
- A clear, shared view of your product backlog
- Releases and sprints planned at the right pace
- Real-time progress tracking with the sprint taskboard
- Data-driven decisions, including the burndown chart
- Complete traceability for requirements management and audits
- Continuous improvement with every retrospective
What is agile project management?
Agile project management is an iterative approach that organizes work into short sprints and prioritizes the value delivered to users. Rather than planning everything upfront, teams work in iterations, adjust their priorities at each stage, and regularly deliver functional increments.
This agile approach relies on frameworks such as Scrum, which structures work into sprints, and Kanban, which visualizes the flow of tasks. Key roles include the product owner, who is responsible for business value, and the scrum master, who ensures the process runs smoothly. These principles are formalized by the Agile Alliance.
Tuleap’s backlog is the agile project management tool that puts this approach into practice, from the product backlog through to the delivered release.
Structure and prioritize your product backlog
When everything seems urgent, teams can easily lose focus. Tuleap’s backlog helps you make the right decisions: structure your product backlog on two levels, with epics for business objectives and user stories for detailed functional requirements, so everyone knows what to work on first.
- Create epics to represent your key objectives
- Break them down into user stories linked to each epic
- Prioritize your product backlog based on business value
- Refine and reorganize your backlog throughout backlog refinement
Each user story remains linked to its epic throughout the project. The result: a prioritized, shared product backlog that helps teams focus on the most important requirements.
Plan your releases and sprints
An agile roadmap is only valuable if you can stick to it. Starting from your prioritized product backlog, Tuleap’s backlog turns your plans into a realistic delivery plan. Release planning groups user stories into a release, then sprint planning distributes them across sprints within the team’s capacity.
- Define the content of each release.
- Distribute user stories across multiple sprints.
- Balance the team’s workload.
- Track your agile roadmap release by release.
Each sprint remains linked to its release. You maintain continuous visibility into what will be delivered and can prepare upcoming deadlines without losing sight of the bigger picture.
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Track your sprints with the sprint taskboard
No more repeated status updates just to find out how the sprint is progressing. The sprint taskboard brings all ongoing tasks together in a single, real-time view that is visible to the entire team.
- Break down each user story into tasks
- Assign tasks to team members
- Move tasks from one status column to another using drag and drop
- See every status change instantly
The taskboard updates automatically as tasks progress. Every team member works with the latest information, without duplicate data entry or manual synchronization.
Manage your sprints with the burndown chart and key metrics
A project that is falling behind is often noticed too late. Tuleap’s backlog brings your key sprint metrics, including the burndown chart, together in a single interface, so you can spot deviations while there is still time to act.
- Estimate the effort required for your user stories, for example in story points.
- Track remaining work with the burndown chart.
- Compare planned work with completed work.
- Identify deviations and anticipate delays.
Product owners and scrum masters rely on the same data to adjust priorities and prepare upcoming sprint planning with confidence.
Ensure requirements traceability
Proving that a requirement has been developed and tested can quickly turn into detective work. Tuleap’s backlog links each epic to its user stories, tasks, and tests through to the release. Traceability covers the entire lifecycle and directly supports your requirements management.
- Trace every requirement back to its source.
- Link requirements, tasks, tests, and releases.
- Assess the impact of every change.
- Link your user stories to your test campaigns with Tuleap’s test management.
All this information remains accessible in a single agile platform. Your reviews and audits are supported by a complete chain of traceability, from requirements through to delivery.
Learn from your releases with agile retrospectives
Every release is an opportunity to learn. Tuleap’s backlog keeps the history of your epics, user stories, sprints, tasks, tests, and deliveries, helping you turn experience into concrete decisions.
- Analyze the results of each sprint.
- Prepare your agile retrospectives and sprint reviews.
- Refine your product backlog for upcoming iterations.
- Plan future releases based on concrete data.
As iterations progress, your teams refine the way they work. Each sprint builds on the experience gained from previous ones and contributes to a true continuous improvement cycle.
Scrum or Kanban: the backlog adapts to your agile methodology
Not all teams work the same way. Tuleap’s backlog is built around Scrum principles, with a product backlog, sprints, and releases. For teams working in a continuous flow, Tuleap also offers a Kanban board. Choose the framework that best fits your agile project management approach without having to switch tools.
Why choose Tuleap’s backlog for agile project management?
Tuleap’s backlog covers the entire lifecycle of an agile project in a single platform, from the product backlog through to the delivered release.
- One tool from requirements to delivery: epics, user stories, sprints, releases, tests, and metrics all in one place.
- Native traceability: every item remains linked, supporting requirements management and audits.
- Data-driven decisions: real-time burndown charts and progress metrics.
- A single agile platform: your teams work in the same environment without having to switch between tools.
See Tuleap’s backlog in action
Nothing beats a live demonstration. Explore Tuleap’s backlog and see how it structures your product backlog, plans your sprints, and tracks progress through a real-world use case.
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FAQ
What is agile project management?
Agile project management is an iterative approach that organizes work into short sprints and prioritizes the value delivered to users. Tuleap’s backlog is the agile project management tool that puts this approach into practice, from the product backlog through to the release.
How do you prioritize a product backlog?
A product backlog is prioritized based on business value. With Tuleap’s backlog, you can order and refine your backlog throughout iterations so teams work on the most important requirements first.
What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum?
Scrum organizes work into fixed-length sprints, with a product backlog and defined roles. Kanban visualizes a continuous flow of tasks without fixed iterations. Tuleap’s backlog supports the Scrum approach, and Tuleap also offers a Kanban board.
How are releases and sprints organized in Tuleap’s backlog?
User stories from the product backlog are grouped into a release and then distributed across sprints. Each sprint remains associated with its release, providing continuous visibility into the agile roadmap.
How does Tuleap’s backlog ensure requirements traceability?
Each epic remains linked to its user stories, tasks, and tests through to the release. This allows you to trace every requirement back to its source and assess the impact of every change, supporting requirements management.
What metrics can you use to track a sprint?
Tuleap’s backlog brings together the burndown chart and other progress metrics that compare planned work with completed work, helping you identify deviations and anticipate delays.
