We starting to love using Jira Cloud for managing our projects.
I notice that custom boards cannot be added with stock Jira, So i'm open to plugin suggestions.
Background: We've struck upon a project management paradigm that works for us. It's a kind of blend between traditional waterfall and agile. Essentially we specify a project as a set of tasks, each reasonably high level, which are grouped in 'themes' (I've started using the Component field to indicate these), that we roughly schedule into 'Sprints' at the start of the project. We tend to have a lead for each theme. The schedule indicates when roughly we think we need to have done the task given what has to come before, what's getting delivered (and when), team capacity, and various other features. We have found it gives us the flexibility to move tasks left/right as needed in response to external factors (e.g. finding out something is actually harder/easier than we though at the beginning etc). We use due date to indicate when we think the task needs to be done by. And at the moment, the sprints are labels.
Problem: The stock board doesn't give us the flexibility we'd like. I'd like to quickly visualize the tasks grouped by theme (or by any other variable, including Custom fields).
Desired solution: I'd like a way of adding more boards to Business Projects that let's me define swimlanes and columns based on any arbitrary choice of field or a query. It would look a bit like a gantt, but not quite.
Has anyone come across a plugin, or work around that might do the trick.
