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Is there a way to prioritize the Kanban backlog, other than manual sorting?

Emile Bouthillier

When I had my backlog in a standard Kanban column, I was using Swimlanes to automatically prioritize my issues based on a couple of fields (business value, effort estimate, etc,) and that resulted in a coarsely prioritized backlog. I had a swimlane for High-vlaue-low-effort, another one for High-vlaue-medium-effort, High-value-high-effort, Medium-value-low-effort, etc.

Is there a way to do the same thing in a Kanban backlog? Or should I go back to default Kanban and use my swimlane trick?

Thank you!

Emile

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Use an "order by" in the JQL filter of your board

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unknown

Use an "order by" in the JQL filter of your board

Emile Bouthillier

I am not sure if an "Order By" can work. My real goal would be to assign a priority score to each issues and order by priority scores.

My priorities would be set by a couple of factors, lets say A, B, C and D.

Where, for example:

A = Number of users being affected

B = Impact on User Experience

C = Impact on Sales/Support team

D = Effort estimate

My dream priority formula would be: Priority = (A*B+C)/D

Now, because I can't seem to be able to do that in JIRA, I am doing the following instead as an approximation (in Kanban Swimlanes):

High priority Swimlane JQL: (A > 10 OR B >10 OR C > 20 AND (D < 5))

Medium-High priority Swimlane JQL: (A > 10 OR B >10 OR C > 20 AND (D < 10))

Medium priority Swimlane JQL: (A > 5 OR B >5 OR C > 10 AND (D < 10))

Medium-Low priority Swimlane JQL: (A > 5 OR B >5 OR C > 10 AND (D < 20))

Low priority Swimlane JQL: (A > 2 OR B >2 OR C > 5 AND (D < 20))

Very-Low priority Swimlane JQL: (A <= 2 AND B <=2 AND C <= 5 OR (D >= 20))

And I use these swimlanes as my way to prioritize.

Is there a better way to do this in a Kanban backlog? Is there a way to multiply, add, subtract and divide field values to come up with a prioritization method?

Thanks!

unknown

Now we are talking.

So, you are asking about calculated fields or to use a matrix to calculate priority. You need and add-on like scriptrunner and create a Scripted field or a listener which updates priority and then use that field with the order by.

I would go for the scripted field.

Emile Bouthillier

Thanks a lot Cristian!

I will check out ScriptRunner.

Thanks again.

Joshwa Marcalle

Hi Emile,

Jira portfolio is the best way to do it. Drag and drop entire initiatives and see the changes on the backlog

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