Boards for Teams (Artists vs Coders) Tasks/Issues

[Oliver Jones]

Hello,

I'm new to Jira and I'm trying to setup an agile workflow for my project and teams.

I can't seem to figure out what the benefits of creating new boards does, they all seem to hold the exact same tasks/issues?!

Ideally, I would like to create a Board for my Artists, and a Board for my Coders; and I have done just this.

However, when I create 'issues' within the Artists board, they also show in my Coders board, and vice verse. I would like to keep issues for the Artists only visible in the Artists Board, and likewise for the Coders.

So it seems that creating a new Board just simply mirrors everything, which seems a bit pointless and very messy to me?

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I come from a Trello background, so to me; when creating a Board, and adding Tasks; those tasks stay and are children of this Board. However this isn't the case for Jira. It seems as if the Issues/Tasks are children of the Project (rather than board-specific), and are shared across all Boards, which makes no sense to me?

Could someone please explain the best way to do this is?

[Jack Brickey]

@Oliver Jones, boards are visual filtered lists. The board filter is what defines the issue displayed. If you want your artists and coders to see only those issues that apply to then you need to change the board filter under the Board settings Details page. Ultimately you need to come up with a means of differentiating the issues for each so you can filter on that, e.g. the Components field.

[Oliver Jones]

Thank you for your answer; that explains a lot them. So what would be the best method for me to 'filter' these boards into Devs vs Artists tasks? Does filters use some kind of tagging system?

[Jack Brickey]

It depends on how you differentiate them today? Is there any field that conveys this info? I mentioned the use of the “components” field. A board is simply a visual representation of a filter so for example...

Artist Board: project = abc AND Components = “Artists”

Dev Board: project = abc AND Components = “Developers”