Split Columns in Kanban?

Question

Hi there,

I am wondering if there is a possibility to split columns in Kanban boards.

E.g. there are two statuses: 'in progress' and 'waiting for feedback'.

I want to put these two statuses in one columns which is divided vertically in two parts. On the left 50% is status 'in progress' and the other 50% on the right is status 'waiting for feedback'.

Is there any chance to split a column as wanted?

Thanks and greetings from Munich.

David

Gopikrishnan Shankaran · Answer

@Thomas Schlegel If I understood correctly , The requirement is to split coulmns horizontally.

Why do we need this....

When we start with a ticket or Userstory we would move it to In-progress. But It is not always guaranted that we will complete it ..Sometimes due to dependency on other team member's inputs who is not availabe or may be some infra related delay migth happen during that time insteading of keeping the ticket in inprogress we might want to park it in follow up starte, so if we split In-progress column and take a new ticket which might not affect our WIP limit.

Also adding verical column for each intermediate state would take so much space and annoying.....

This is a genuine feature we might require.

Thomas Schlegel · Answer

Ah, now I understood your question. But I'm sorry, I've never heard of something like this.

I wouldn't use more than one status for one column, it's impossible to handle such a configuration with the board's drag-and-drop-functionality.

Viele Grüße aus Hamburg!

David Eisenrauch · Answer

Sorry guys,my bad. Apologies for that wrong vocabulary.

I mean columns, not swimlane.

I changed it in the description.