Using "Sprint" rather than "Status" for columns in a Kanban Board.

Question

Hi,

We currently use Scrum Boards for our sprints and a physical whiteboard for PI Planning.

I would like to virtualise the whiteboard and remove the need for capturing everything in Jira after the event.

We have several tools within the organisation, but I'd like to keep everything in Jira to reduce the setup overhead.

I'm currently thinking of setting up a new Kanban board within the same Project as the Scrum board and creating custom columns for the Sprints.

The problem is that I can only map the columns to Status.

Is there a way to map columns to the Sprint field?

I guess the only work around at the moment is to use custom Statuses, but that would get bloated very quickly.

Any other ways to skin this cat?

Many thanks in advance

Rob

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Yes, to what @Rob Spencer says, and...

* If you had swimlanes with JQL selecting sprints within the program increment (PI), and
* Rolled-up the teams' status values in columns of Not Started, In Progress, and Done...
* You would have a sideways view of the PI board which shows the progress of work.

It could also be useful to show swimlanes by team with the status roll-up, making dependent work issues visible.

Thomas Schlegel · Answer

Hi @Rob Spencer ,

no, I never heard of anything like this. In Kanban, columns represent one or more status, nothing else.

Maybe you can use Swimlanes with custom JQL for your sprints.