A board is the project view in CIRO NOISE. Every task is a card, and the columns show how far along it is. At a glance you see what's open, what someone is working on and what's done. Many people know this as a project board or task board, the kind you may have used in tools like Trello or Jira.
You'll find your boards in the Tasks feature. Each board has a name, a description and a prefix in capital letters, such as CIR or WEB. Boards can be nested, archived and linked to a customer in your customer database.
How boards work in CIRO NOISE
Out of the box, a board shows the columns Open, In progress, In review and Done. In the board settings you can hide columns or add Won't do. Open and Done always stay, because every task needs a start and an end.
Besides the column view there's a calendar, an archive, an activity log and insights. You can filter by label, sprint and your mentions, and group the board into swimlanes, for example by assignee, priority or label. Saved views remember those settings.
Every board has its own labels, up to five custom fields, a template for new tasks and, if you want, a default assignee. With triage switched on, tasks arriving from outside land first in a strip above the board. Whoever runs the board accepts or declines them there.
An everyday example
An agency of eight sets up one board per client: BRA for Brandt & Sons, SOM for Café Sommer. The BRA board is linked to the client record, so hours logged on its tasks reach the client through the board. The board pulse shows the goal “Relaunch by November 30”, and CIRO NOISE uses the weekly pace to tell you whether that goal is on track.
Sprints and goals
If your team works in fixed time boxes, you plan the board in sprints, usually two weeks long. You pull tasks into the sprint, and a chart shows every day how much is still open. When you complete a sprint, open tasks move to the sprint you choose or back to planning, and finished tasks stay as its result.
You set a goal and a target date right on the board. Together with your pace, that gives a forecast of whether the goal will be met or is at risk.