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Can you add swimlanes to a business project board?

Brad Kagawa

I'm trying to create a lightweight to-do list that exists outside of my main software projects and I am finding all of the options not helpful. I like how business projects only expose a simple Kanban-style board with a "Create" button right there and no backlog to worry about. This works well for my needs.

- but-

My big problem is the inability to further manage the Kanban board. I'd like to organize into swimlanes based on Assigneee or Epic or JQL like I can with software projects. Is this possible? Or if not how can I get the lightweight "Create" button into a different project type?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Business boards don't have swimlanes.

Scrum and Kanban do have a limited simple create in their backlog though.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Business boards don't have swimlanes.

Scrum and Kanban do have a limited simple create in their backlog though.

Brad Kagawa

That's what I feared, seems very arbitrary.

If not swimlanes is there any other way to organize a business board outside of the workflow?

Thanks for the super quick response!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, the business boards are deliberately very simple.

Brad Kagawa

I'll mess around with a stripped down software board then.

Thanks again for the info!

Jack Brickey

I may be missing something but in case I'm not...You can create a board outside of the default Business Project board using your profile as the location (you can't associated the board directly to the project). In that board you can add swim lanes, columns, etc.

Note: this is on cloud so maybe server is different?

Brad Kagawa

Yep, I'm on cloud version.

I think if I take that approach, there isn't much functional difference between having it be a software project. The thing I do like about the business project is the board view is super clean and I can really easily add items inline (not using the create button in the top nav):

Jack Brickey

agreed. I do use the default board for quickly adding tasks at the beginning of a project but then move to the more complete board to manage the project.

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