board to track team activity

Levon Sargsyan

I would like to have a board to track team activity,

so the each column in the board will represent tasks assigned to each engineer.

Is this use model can be achieved within Jira itself? ( another apporach is to integrate our jira with other project managment tools like trello   ) 

Jack Brickey

Hi Levon and welcome to the Community. The way boards work (kanban or scrum) is that the columns represent the status of the issue, e.g. To Do > In Progress > Done. As for illustrating the assignees work it can be done a number of ways e.g.

• using the avatars to filter on the assignee 
• using a quick filter "Only my issues" allowing the user logged in to see their work only
• using swimlanes (rows) per user

there are other unique ways to allow users to view their work as well. For example, I created a unique Dashboard called "My Activities" that leverages the "currentuser()" JQL function for the filters. The end result is that whoever is logged in and viewing the dashboard will see only their issues reflected. This provides a 'standard' view for project management purposes but hones in on their issues.