When using Kanban how do I focus on tasks assigned to a specific person?

Question

During our Standup meeting we show the board and we typically are looking at prioritized issues, however sometimes I would like to focus on issues assigned to a specific person.  How can I filter down to a person or persons?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

It has been several years since I worked with the self-hosted Jira product regularly. I thought that I remembered they had a built in assignee filter for boards, but it turns out my memory was inaccurate on that point.

In the Cloud product there is a built-in filter for Assignees. It is similar to the Quick Filters in that you have to click it on/off for each user, but the user list is produced automatically based on the Assignees in the issues on the board.

Nathan Hawk_6am34v · Answer

I assume they are called "Quick" Filters because they are only one click, so "slow" was just my play on words for a more advanced, potentially multi-click filters.  However, it appears that Jira doesn't provide any other way to filter other than Quick filters, which is very limited for such a mature product.  For this use case, using Quick filters would usually end up being multiple clicks anyway, because you would need to unclick the previous person's filter.  A multi-select drop down is much more user friendly (for example, assignee in the basic search UI).

It does look like the paid add on you linked to would work, and I like that they have an online demo to interact with.  However, the majority of the features the add on provides should be a part of the base product.  The tool is really not usable without them.  In reality, I have never worked on a team that did not regularly need to focus on individual assignments in real time during a standup meeting.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Yes, one for each person.

I don't know what you mean by slow filters.

There is not native functionality in Jira Server/ Data Center for board filters using a drop down or input field.

There may be third party apps that would provide that enhanced filtering capability. One that I've heard of but not used is Agile Tools & Filters for Jira.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215334/agile-tools-filters-for-jira-software?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview