Why are columns of board not named after statuses of workflow

Question

Hey,

I have created a workflow with different statuses as you can see in the picture below.

When I create a project the columns of the kanban board are not named like the statuses of my workflow as in the picture below.

Instaed the columns are named after the default steps Backlog, Selected for Development, In Progress, Done and not after my statuses. Thats why I have to drag my workflow statuses to the respective columns and rename them. I hope you can follow me and maybe know how to solve it if it is possible. Thanks

John Funk · Answer

Hi Onur,

For Jira Software company-managed projects, this is standard practice. For Jira Work Management (both company-managed and team-managed) projects, the columns are initially named the same as the status.

Charlie Misonne · Answer

Hi!

There 2 main reasons for this I can think of:

* Workflows can be customized and can be different in each project or even for each issue type
* Columns can contain multiple statuses. E.g. the "Open" column could contain the "open", "new" and "reopened" statuses

If you have a large workflow managing the boards can take some time indeed. But it should not change too often I think.