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The board view for a Jira project provides a good overview of the progress of stories in a sprint.  As a team lead, the board is an effective tool for coordinating work in your team.

Click on the **Active sprints** link in the left navigation area for your project.  This will show the board view for the project.

![Active_sprints_view](/images/70_Workflow/Active_sprints_view.png)

The board view consists of columns representing the workflow statuses for the project.  Within each column are “cards” for stories or sub-tasks.  For stories that have sub-tasks, the cards are for the subtasks, with the parent story spanning all the columns.  For stories that are not decomposed into sub-tasks, the card is for the story itself.

For your Courtyard Improvement project, you’ll notice that everything is currently under the **TO DO** column, though the “Gnome” story has a badge showing it is “IN PROGRESS”.

Cards for stories or sub-tasks that are assigned to a user will display an avatar representing the assigned user.  You can hover over the avatar to show the user’s name.

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Having a unique avatar for each user on the team helps you quickly identity the user assigned to a story or sub-task on the scrum board.
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### Updating Workflow via Project Board

The project board can be an excellent way to manage the workflow of your stories and sub-tasks.  As work on your sprint’s stories progresses, you’ll want to be updating the workflow status.  Let’s use the board to update the status of some sub-tasks.

Drag the **“Remove urn”** sub-task card to the **Done** column and drag the **“Retrieve gnome”** sub-task card to the **In Progress** column.  Notice that in the card for **“Remove urn”** the unique key for the subtask has a line through it to indicate the subtask is complete.

![Sprint_board_progress](/images/70_Workflow/Sprint_board_progress.png)