Scrum and Kanban Boards with Backlog in One Project

[LoriAnne Carpenter]

How do you take advantage of the Kanban backlog for a Kanban board in the same project with Scrum boards?

We have two dev teams, each running scrum with dedicated scrum boards in one project. In that same project, we have a Kanban board for our production support team. (We had this Kanban board in a separate project, but needed to consolidate into one project for various reasons).

I had to adjust the project workflow to include a Backlog status (assigned upon creation of an issue) in order to take advantage of the Kanban backlog, but bizarrely this somehow conflicts with our Scrum backlogs. Any issues with status = Backlog do not, in fact, show up in the Scrum backlogs. It's important for our Kanban board to have both a `Backlog` status as well as a `To Do` status, as backlog is where we prioritize, and To Do is the queue for work that's ready for dev.

Is there something I am missing? Have I configured this wrong? 

Thanks in advance!

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

Yes, docs says so. In fact Google says so:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124934(v=exchg.141).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996347(v=exchg.141).aspx

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Renjith has pointed you to the docs on how to enable POP3, it's likely that your Exchange server team have not enabled it.

I suspect it's exactly the same for IMAP. IMAP is a standard protocol, but it's not enabled in Exchange 2010 by default.

You need to choose which one you prefer and get the Exchange team to enable it. (It's no good them talking about MAPI - that's closed source and needs a licence fee, so it's not particularly useful and no-one really bothers to take it seriously, except MS)