In azure devops, Can I Create a Backlog where items don't show in the kanban board

Question

I am setting up a process in azure devops based off the agile process When I create a story (or feature etc) in the "backlog" section, it shows up on my kanban board. I want to keep my stories that aren't ready to begin being worked on somewhere else so i dont have a huge list of stories on my board.

Any idea about how to do this?

For clarification...I've added an item to the backlog but not yet assigned it to a sprint:

And here is the kanban board.

Since I haven't assigned the story to an iteration yet, i don't want it to show on the board... Is this doable?

Answer 1

It sounds like you've not set up any iterations yet. By default, you'll have 1 iteration. Go to https://yoururl/_settings/work and create some child iterations.

Anything which is on the backlog would have the base iteration path, with items in an active/future sprint/iteration having a child iteration path set.