Board swimlanes based on issues?

Question

My sprint backlog is ordered by rank. Whatever the status of an issue (story, task, bug, etc.) is, I want the same order to be shown in the board. Right now, whenever a status changes the issue gets moved to the top of the according column (or below its latest issue). This breaks the ordering by rank. The correct sorting would be to have a swimlane for each issue (story, task, bug) so its position of the "y axis" is fixed and it can just move along the status columns from left to right.

It seems impossible to have swimlanes based on any issue (such as "Base Swimlanes on Stories"). Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

Tom Arndt · Answer

Do you mean:

Query1: JQL = issuetype=Task

Query2: JQL = issuetype=Story

Query3: JQL = issuetype=bug

This would lead to three swimlanes, one for each issuetype.

I want one swimlane for each issue and not it's type. My sprint backlog has 6 stories, 21 tasks and 3 bugs. I want to have 6+21+3=30 swimlanes showing one issue (task, story, bug) each.

Tarun Sapra · Answer

Hello @Tom Arndt

You can have Swimlanes based on queries, thus in the configuration choose Queries isntead of stories and in the queries mention the types

type = story
type  = bug
type = bug

Thus you can have the issueType based swimlanes.