Table with important projects/epics

Question

Hello,

We are sw development company. We are using Jira and Confluence for a quite long time now. Our product consists of different modules. Every module has its own board/sprint. Not every project has all modules.

We want to have a big table with important/strategic projects. Each of these projects consists of different tasks for specific boards.

Our idea is to have an overview over these projects so we can easily check what's the status of the tasks in a specific project.  I created a simple table in confluence. Each row is specific project/epic and each column is specific module. I put specific jira tasks into cells. We can see which tasks are opened and why some projects are not finished yet. It is obvious which modules are the bottleneck.  My problem is, that this table is static. I will have to administer it manually. I believe there is a solution for our challenge already in Jira.

Any idea/suggestion will be more very welcome.

unknown · Answer

in Board -> Configure -> Swimlanes -> Base Swimlanes on -> then you can decide how you want the swimlanes to be in your board, epic, project OR JQL, but you cannot mix them. so there is no need to right any JQL queries to get a row for each epic, as its done automatically when basing the swimlane on epic.

Regards,

Saad

Rok Rogelj · Answer

Dear Saad,

Thank you for your suggestion. I tried with Kanban board. By default, I have only swimlanes...I would like to have separate rows for each project/epic. Can this be achieved by Swimlanes? What should I specify in JQL, so that I would get a row for each epic automatically?

unknown · Answer

Hi, I suggest that you create one Kanban Board including all the important/strategic projects. To map your tasks in a table like way you need to use the add-on Agile User Story Map PRO for Jira, with which you can specify the rows and the columns of your table/board.

Tell me how it worked for you.

Regards,

Saad