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Is it possible to activate the kanban backlog in a team-managed space?

Federico Arguissain
January 27, 2026

I have two different spaces: a team-managed space and a company-managed space. Both have the backlog feature active. However, the company-managed space does show the 'kanban backlog', which helps to avoid cluttering the kanban board, while the the team-managed space doesn't give me this option.

Is it possible to activate the kanban backlog in a team-managed space?

 

In the team-managed space it looks as follows:
image.png

 

While in the company-managed space the board has the kanban backlog.image.png

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Nikola Perisic
Community Champion
January 27, 2026

Welcome @Federico Arguissain 

You need to go to Space settings -> Features -> Backlog and toggle it on.

Federico Arguissain
January 30, 2026

Thank you Nikola, but it is indeed toggled on already. I can also access it in the navigation bar.
What I don't see is the column that says 'Kanban backlog' when I want to map the statuses to columns of the board.



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Swathi Acharya
Atlassian Team
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January 27, 2026

Hello @Federico Arguissain

Good day! Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Yes, you can enable Backlog in a Team-managed space. 

You can refer to the steps to enable it here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-the-backlog/#Enable-the-backlog-for-your-team-managed-software-space

 

Federico Arguissain
January 30, 2026

Thank you Swathi, but the backlog is indeed enabled already. I can access it in the navigation bar (see attached).
However, what I don't see in the team-managed space is the column that says 'Kanban backlog' when I want to map the statuses to columns of the board.Screenshot 2026-01-30.pngScreenshot 2026-01-30 112050.png

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