Create Swimlanes By Assignee And User Picker Field

Dave Keating_52ce16

I'm potentially overlooking something really obvious here but I'm wanting an efficient JQL query to create swimlanes in a Kanban board based on a tickets assignee AND a user selected in a user picker field.

The end result I want to achieve is swimlanes based on issues that have two users present in them. 

The problem I'm solving is that I have a department of 40 people. On each project, two people are selected to partner on it. 99% of the time, it's the same two people partnered over a period of time (across multiple projects) concurrently. So I'm trying to visualise the workload of the team in the swimlanes so the team manager has a view on the status of each teams workload.

I'm trying to think about a way of writing the query that doesn't require me to "hardcode" the users into the query. This is to avoid ongoing admin of the filters on the board.

Thank you for any help you can give me!

George Mihailoff

To clarify, two people make up a team and you want to visualize the workload per such mini-team? What is the difference between the assignee and the second partner? Are they equally involved?

In our Kanban metrics app, we display workload per individual based on the number of tickets in progress on a separate graph. While swimlanes could be used for that as well, typically they better suite classes of service (the type of work) because you want to manage the work and not people. This is a classical dilemma between "resource utilization" and "flow efficiency".