Does Jira Support A Swimlane/Board-like view for Epics?

Question

Hi all!

I am working on a project that makes heavy use of Jira Epics to track many features being developed in parallel by the team.

I was wondering if there is a view in Jira Cloud that is very similar to a board, but only displays issues that are of type Epic. Our epics have a simple workflow - Ready, In Progress, Done. And we are wanting to view the epics in swim lanes under each status.

Is this possible? Or perhaps are there marketplace apps that support it? Is it something capable in Company Managed and not in Team Managed projects?

Cheers!

Steve

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Answer

Hi @Steven Prentice,

I don't know of a way to achieve this in Jira boards.

If you consider the idea of using a plugin, our Great Gadgets app has a Team Wallboard gadget that can display only the epics on a Jira dashboard. This is just an example:

You can easily achieve this by configuring the gadget in two ways:

1. Having as data source a Filter or JQL that returns the epics to track - in this case, the columns of the gadget will be the status categories (TO DO, IN PROGRESS, DONE), or

2. Having as data source your agile board - but in this case your board should have a quick filter that returns only the epics and the gadget should be configured to apply that quick filter. In this case the columns displayed will be the ones from your agile board

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at support@stonikbyte.com.

Danut.

Yong Yang · Answer

Are you using JSW or JWM TMP? (screnshots are preferred)

Maybe you can show all your requirements here so that we can suggest what to use.

BTW, Epics are not usually marked as a specific sprint. The child issues of an Epic will be in the sprint.

Steven Prentice · Answer

In team-managed project -> Board, we just filter the issue type of Epics and then will only see all Epics shown in that board.

Thanks for the tips @Yong Yang  but I don't think this is even possible in a TMP because epics are not shown as Issues at all, they seem to act more like labels. When I expand the `Type` filter, there is not an option for Epic.

Furthermore, if I could show epics here, they would only appear if they were in the current sprint I think where I am trying to gain a longer term summary. I think CMP + Kanban might be the only way.