The free-form collaboration tool that actually works with Jira
The ultimate collaboration tool for product and engineering teams with a deep two-way Jira integration.
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The world’s leading companies use Whiteboards for agile collaboration
What are Whiteboards?
Whiteboards is a free-form collaboration platform for connected product and engineering teams. Manage your work on one digital canvas and improve your productivity.
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Discover our available solutions to synchronize your work and boost your productivity!
Use cases
Leverage Whiteboards during
any development ceremony
Use Whiteboards as your companion for daily meetings, retrospectives, planning sessions, and more. Elevate your team’s efficiency and engagement as you navigate each ceremony with ease and effectiveness.
Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Backlog Management
Story Estimation
SAFe / PI Planning
User Story Mapping
Retrospectives
Daily Scrum
Synchronize with your product team and orchestrate work on a daily basis. Host daily stand-up meetings for updates, workday planning, and coordination. Stay in sync with other team members to identify and eliminate roadblocks affecting your Sprint goal.
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Daily Scrum
Synchronize with your product team and orchestrate work on a daily basis. Host daily stand-up meetings for updates, workday planning, and coordination. Stay in sync with other team members to identify and eliminate roadblocks affecting your Sprint goal.
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Synchronize with your product team and orchestrate work on a daily basis. Host daily stand-up meetings for updates, workday planning, and coordination. Stay in sync with other team members to identify and eliminate roadblocks affecting your Sprint goal.
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Sprint Planning
Kick off your next Sprint with a Sprint planning session on Whiteboards. Define your Sprint goal and backlog. Collaborate and interact with the whole team on a virtual board.
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Sprint Planning
Kick off your next Sprint with a Sprint planning session on Whiteboards. Define your Sprint goal and backlog. Collaborate and interact with the whole team on a virtual board.
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Kick off your next Sprint with a Sprint planning session on Whiteboards. Define your Sprint goal and backlog. Collaborate and interact with the whole team on a virtual board.
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Backlog Management
Prioritize and plan out your team’s work by adding, deleting, and managing backlog items. Align on high-level goals and tackle all Jira stories in one convenient virtual space.
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Backlog Management
Prioritize and plan out your team’s work by adding, deleting, and managing backlog items. Align on high-level goals and tackle all Jira stories in one convenient virtual space.
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Prioritize and plan out your team’s work by adding, deleting, and managing backlog items. Align on high-level goals and tackle all Jira stories in one convenient virtual space.
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Story Point Estimation
Measure the effort required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work using voting points. Estimate the complexity, risks, and uncertainties with your entire team.
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Story Point Estimation
Measure the effort required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work using voting points. Estimate the complexity, risks, and uncertainties with your entire team.
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Measure the effort required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work using voting points. Estimate the complexity, risks, and uncertainties with your entire team.
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SAFe / PI Planning
Synchronize with all team members during a powerful PI Planning session to break down features and epics and plan them for the next Sprints or iterations. Work on low-level details such as stories, tasks, and subtasks. Highlight dependencies between features and epics planned by individual teams.
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SAFe / PI Planning
Synchronize with all team members during a powerful PI Planning session to break down features and epics and plan them for the next Sprints or iterations. Work on low-level details such as stories, tasks, and subtasks. Highlight dependencies between features and epics planned by individual teams.
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Synchronize with all team members during a powerful PI Planning session to break down features and epics and plan them for the next Sprints or iterations. Work on low-level details such as stories, tasks, and subtasks. Highlight dependencies between features and epics planned by individual teams.
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User Story Mapping
Visualize your user’s experience by placing user stories along your customer journey and prioritizing them into Sprint or version swimlanes.
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User Story Mapping
Visualize your user’s experience by placing user stories along your customer journey and prioritizing them into Sprint or version swimlanes.
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Visualize your user’s experience by placing user stories along your customer journey and prioritizing them into Sprint or version swimlanes.
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Retrospectives
Conduct retrospective meetings on Whiteboards to improve your teamwork. Reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and draw conclusions. Host retros at the end of the Sprint, project, or milestone. Use simple templates for a quick retro session or check our power template for a delta plus retrospective.
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Retrospectives
Conduct retrospective meetings on Whiteboards to improve your teamwork. Reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and draw conclusions. Host retros at the end of the Sprint, project, or milestone. Use simple templates for a quick retro session or check our power template for a delta plus retrospective.
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Conduct retrospective meetings on Whiteboards to improve your teamwork. Reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and draw conclusions. Host retros at the end of the Sprint, project, or milestone. Use simple templates for a quick retro session or check our power template for a delta plus retrospective.
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Integrations
Collaborate seamlessly
across multiple tools with
Whiteboards integrations
Jira integration
Work with Jira issues
on Whiteboards
Issues
Links
Active Zones
Subtasks
Jira templates
Work with existing Jira issues
Paste the Jira link onto the whiteboard and the issue card will get displayed.
You can also access Jira epics, stories, or bugs from the sidebar and drag them across to the whiteboard.
Create brand new Jira issues
Convert sticky notes into Jira issues one by one or in bulk.
Push changes to Jira. Pull changes from Jira.
Change the issue data on the whiteboard, and the Jira gets updated instantaneously. Change something in Jira, and your cards on the whiteboard get updated too.
Work with existing Jira issues
Paste the Jira link onto the whiteboard and the issue card will get displayed.
You can also access Jira epics, stories, or bugs from the sidebar and drag them across to the whiteboard.
Create brand new Jira issues
Convert sticky notes into Jira issues one by one or in bulk.
Push changes to Jira. Pull changes from Jira.
Change the issue data on the whiteboard, and the Jira gets updated instantaneously. Change something in Jira, and your cards on the whiteboard get updated too.
Display Jira issue links
Show native Jira connections between stories (i.e., blocks, depends on, etc.).
Create brand new links or modify existing ones
Create new Jira links or dependencies by visually connecting two cards and selecting the dependency type.
Epic links
Create brand new or display existing links between epic and their child issues.
Display Jira issue links
Show native Jira connections between stories (i.e., blocks, depends on, etc.).
Create brand new links or modify existing ones
Create new Jira links or dependencies by visually connecting two cards and selecting the dependency type.
Epic links
Create brand new or display existing links between epic and their child issues.
Jira update zones
Put this magic update zone on your whiteboard. Each time you drag an issue inside it, metadata in your issue will change. Examples: assign to / update property / transition to ‘done’ etc.
Jira import zones
Place an import zone on your whiteboard and automatically pull issues from Jira according to any JQL criteria.
Issue table
Build 1- or 2-dimensional Jira sync tables. Move cards between table cells & Jira will update. Each time something changes in Jira, the cards in your table will shift too. Example: Effort vs. Impact analysis.
Jira update zones
Put this magic update zone on your whiteboard. Each time you drag an issue inside it, metadata in your issue will change. Examples: assign to / update property / transition to ‘done’ etc.
Jira import zones
Place an import zone on your whiteboard and automatically pull issues from Jira according to any JQL criteria.
Issue table
Build 1- or 2-dimensional Jira sync tables. Move cards between table cells & Jira will update. Each time something changes in Jira, the cards in your table will shift too. Example: Effort vs. Impact analysis.
Create subtasks on the whiteboard
Select any issue, task, or user story and break it down into subtasks without ever going to Jira.
Visual indication of parent: child hierarchies
Display parent-child links clearly on the whiteboard.
Create subtasks on the whiteboard
Select any issue, task, or user story and break it down into subtasks without ever going to Jira.
Visual indication of parent: child hierarchies
Display parent-child links clearly on the whiteboard.
From Magic Estimations…
Use various Jira-connected templates, like the Magic Estimation template, allowing your team to collaboratively estimate user stories on the whiteboard.
…to complex PI Planning sessions
Out-of-the-box PI Planning template to plan and conduct Program Increment sessions. Your Program Board will automatically update itself based on the plans of individual teams.
From Magic Estimations…
Use various Jira-connected templates, like the Magic Estimation template, allowing your team to collaboratively estimate user stories on the whiteboard.
…to complex PI Planning sessions
Out-of-the-box PI Planning template to plan and conduct Program Increment sessions. Your Program Board will automatically update itself based on the plans of individual teams.
Features
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Private & company boards
Choose a public board if you want to collaborate on projects with other people. To restrict editing, board visibility, and access rights, make it private.
View all featuresPrivate & company boards
Choose a public board if you want to collaborate on projects with other people. To restrict editing, board visibility, and access rights, make it private.
Upload any content
Add pictures, images, screenshots, or GIFs to your whiteboard. Use iframes to embed videos or entire websites directly on your free-form canvas.
View all featuresUpload any content
Add pictures, images, screenshots, or GIFs to your whiteboard. Use iframes to embed videos or entire websites directly on your free-form canvas.
Audio & Video chat
Enable the video chat directly on your whiteboard to see and talk to your teammates while working on a project. This feature is available only on whiteboards.io.
View all featuresAudio & Video chat
Enable the video chat directly on your whiteboard to see and talk to your teammates while working on a project. This feature is available only on whiteboards.io.
Frames
Give structure to your work, highlight the most important sections, and help others find their way on the whiteboard whenever needed. Arrange your content on the board with frames and use them as presentation slides.
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Give structure to your work, highlight the most important sections, and help others find their way on the whiteboard whenever needed. Arrange your content on the board with frames and use them as presentation slides.
Presentation mode
Navigate through the board by turning off any menu elements and other distractions and control the pace of your meeting.
View all featuresPresentation mode
Navigate through the board by turning off any menu elements and other distractions and control the pace of your meeting.
Card table
Organize your work in a visual way by dividing ideas, sticky notes, or tasks into swimlanes and columns and naming them accordingly to illustrate any process. Use it to track your team’s progress on a Kanban-style board and map down user stories. This feature is available only on whiteboards.io.
View all featuresCard table
Organize your work in a visual way by dividing ideas, sticky notes, or tasks into swimlanes and columns and naming them accordingly to illustrate any process. Use it to track your team’s progress on a Kanban-style board and map down user stories. This feature is available only on whiteboards.io.
Sticky notes
Create handwritten notes, manage their formatting, and, most of all, convert them into Jira or GitHub issues.
View all featuresSticky notes
Create handwritten notes, manage their formatting, and, most of all, convert them into Jira or GitHub issues.
Voting
Decide with your team on the importance of tasks or ideas using a simple voting option. Use it to prioritize work items, choose the best options from many, or what to include in the upcoming Sprint.
View all featuresVoting
Decide with your team on the importance of tasks or ideas using a simple voting option. Use it to prioritize work items, choose the best options from many, or what to include in the upcoming Sprint.
Shapes and arrows for diagramming
Use whiteboards to create any diagram, starting from architecture diagrams through UMLs to entity-relationship diagrams.
View all featuresShapes and arrows for diagramming
Use whiteboards to create any diagram, starting from architecture diagrams through UMLs to entity-relationship diagrams.
Guest access
Open up your whiteboard to external guest collaborators from outside of your company, like contactors or agencies.
View all featuresGuest access
Open up your whiteboard to external guest collaborators from outside of your company, like contactors or agencies.
Commenting
Add your suggestions, ideas, or remarks in the form of comments on the whiteboard to refer to it later or give feedback to your teammates.
View all featuresCommenting
Add your suggestions, ideas, or remarks in the form of comments on the whiteboard to refer to it later or give feedback to your teammates.
Export
Export your board to a PDF file if you want to share it with people outside your organization or print it out.
View all featuresExport
Export your board to a PDF file if you want to share it with people outside your organization or print it out.
Templates
Don’t start from scratch.
Use templates.
Curious about how to manage your work efficiently and productively on Whiteboards? Do it with the help of ready-made templates. Check them out!
User Story Mapping
Visualize the customer journey for your app or feature. Specify goals, tasks, and activities in chronological order using story blocks and placing them in swimlanes.
Daily Standup Meeting
Learn the current progress of every team member that works on scrum tasks with the help of a powerful team check-in template. Get all team members aligned with the company’s goals and address them with short- and long-term challenges.
Kanban Board
Visualize your work, maximize efficiency, and constantly improve with Kanban boards assisting you in defining, managing, and prioritizing tasks.
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