Bug workflows in addition to Agile workflows: how can I have both?

Jason Ried

We're setup with JIRA from a Agile perspective in that we have our own workflow and our sprints have columns that work for us (To do, In Progress, Blocked, To Review & Done). The workflow allows us to contain the team from moving into the Done column without a review phase, which is great.

Going forward we now want to expand on this but I can't see how to do it (despite tons of reading).

Essentially we want to:

1. Create a unique workflow for the art team since they have different constraints. This workflow needs to have it's own unique columns in the sprint, something like: Model, Texture, Stage 1 Approval, Rig, Animate, Stage 2 Approval, Done. This workflow is unique to the artists and I figure they would have their own parallel sprint then, but I can't figure out how to have unique columns depending on the workflow. 

Can someone assist or advise on how best to achieve this goal?

Going forward we would like to have the same for QA, since their workflow is unique.

 

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Your goal here is to have three workflows; developer, artist and QA.

You need to set up the following:

You need different projects and/or issue types to hang the configuration off.  The most simple case is to have a single project with three issue types.  But you could have a project for each type of workflow, or you could have one project with bug/feature/task for devs, portrait/landscape for artists, defect/test for QA and so on.  Or have one project for each type of workflow.

Once you have the differentiation for projects, you create a "workflow scheme" (one for each project if you're using different projects) and that contains the "issue type X uses workflow Y" mapping.

When that's set up, you can now reconfigure your board.  Give it a filter that pulls in all the issues you need (again simple case is "single project, three issue types", so the filter is just "project = X", but you may need "projects in (x, y, z) ).  Add all the columns you need, and then map the status from the various workflows into the columns.

Note that this does mean that you can not use "simplified" workflows - this all has to be done by administrators, your users will not be able to mess with the workflows.