Jira brings the power of agile to a web-based system where progress and reports can be accessed and shared with everyone, even if they aren't physically colocated together. However, sometimes it is still useful to have a physical board and cards so meetings such as daily stand-ups can feel more interactive and refreshing, rather than having everyone stare at a computer monitor all the time.

This can be done with a third-party add-on called Agile Cards - printing issues from Jira. You can search and install it from the Universal Plugin Manager (UPM), or download it from the following link, and upload it to Jira via the UPM manually:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.spartez.scrumprint.scrumplugin

Once you have installed the Agile Cards add-on, you will see a new print icon added to your boards. The following screenshot shows the new icon in the Backlog view of a Scrum board. The icon is also available in the Active sprints mode and on the Kanban board:

When you click on the print icon, a new tab will be opened, and each issue will be turned into a card, as shown in the following screenshot:

After you have printed your Agile Cards, you can cut them up and pin them onto your physical board, and use them in your team meetings. The second feature of this add-on is that it also allows you to synchronize your physical board with your agile board, by letting you take a photo of your board, and then import that back into Jira.

In order to transfer contents from your physical board to Jira's agile board, we need to add a new piece of information to your physical board, called a splitter. A splitter is a piece of paper you need to place between each column on your physical board, so when you take a photo of your physical board, Agile Cards will be able to work out how the columns match up with Jira's agile board. To generate splitters for your board:

1. Browse to the agile board you want to synchronize with.
2. Select the new Agile Cards menu and then the Synchronize physical task board option.

3. Click the Physical board setup tab if this is the first time you are synchronizing both boards:

4. Drag all the columns from the left-hand side that have a corresponding column on your physical board to the Physical board layout section.
5. Click the Print splitters button to print out splitters.

6. Pin the splitter images onto your physical board, as shown in the following image. This will help Agile Cards to determine which column each card belongs to:

With your physical board all set up with splitters, you can now synchronize with your Jira agile board:

1. Take a photo off your board, and send it to your computer.
2. Go to the agile board you want to synchronize with.
3. Select the new Agile Cards menu and then the Synchronize physical task board option.
4. Click the Board synchronization tab.

5. Select and upload the photo taken from Step 1. If the photo is processed successfully, you will get a summary of all the changes.
6. Review the result and click on the automatically change status link to update all issues, or the bulk edit links for each column and process them individually.

Agile Cards has several other customization options, such as letting you customize the layout of your card so you can decide what fields will be included in the printout. You can find out more at https://confluence.spartez.com/x/GwAt.