each team (frontend and backend) can have their own boards to organize their flow among the
members of their teams. We could have, therefore, three Issue Boards for this case:
-**Backend**, for the backend team and their own labels and workflow
-**Frontend**, same as above, for the frontend team
-**Deployment**, for the entire process (backend > frontend > staging > production)
-**Workflow**, for the entire process (backend > frontend > staging > production)
GitLab Issue Boards not just position issue cards in a column, but also allows them to be in multiple boards and still have meaning without the context of a particular board.
### Boards for Milestones
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your app. You can create a milestone exclusive for each release, and [associate it with a board](#board-with-a-milestone).
Therefore, you'll have everything organized in a board per release.
_Available only in [GitLab Enterprise Edition](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/)._
### Using Focus Mode
When you are organizing your issues through an Issue Board and want to avoid distractions,
you can use the [Issue Board on Focus Mode](#focus-mode).
_Available only in [GitLab Enterprise Edition](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/)._
> **Notes:**
>
>- For a broader use-case, please check the blog post
[GitLab Workflow, an Overview](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/25/gitlab-workflow-an-overview/#gitlab-workflow-use-case-scenario).
>
>- For a real use case, please check why
[Codepen decided to adopt Issue Boards](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/01/27/codepen-welcome-to-gitlab/#project-management-everything-in-one-place)
to improve their workflow with
multiple boards.
## Issue Board terminology
Below is a table of the definitions used for GitLab's Issue Board.
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### Board with a milestone
> Introduced in [GitLab Enterprise Edition][ee] 9.0.
> Introduced in [GitLab Enterprise Edition 9.0](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/#boards-with-milestones-ees-eep)
An Issue Board can be associated with a GitLab [Milestone](milestones/index.md#milestones)
which will automatically filter the issue to that milestone. This allows you to
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## Focus mode
> Introduced in [GitLab Enterprise Edition 9.1](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/04/22/gitlab-9-1-released/#issue-boards-focus-mode-ees-eep).
Click the button at the top right to toggle focus mode on and off. In focus mode, the navigation UI is hidden, allowing you to focus on issues in the board.