Creation of a new swim lane

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hello, I am looking to create a new swim lane on the active spring page.  The URL for this page is http://jira.catro.co.uk/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?projectKey=IT&rapidView=6

Can you help me complete this?

thanks

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hi Thomas, 

Solved it! Many thanks for your help on this.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I think we should step back and revisit some of the concepts here.

My usual starting point is to separate board and project.  A project contains issues.  A board is a view of issues (possibly from many projects)

Every issue has a workflow.  A workflow is a collection of status which an issue might be in.  To change from one status to another, you use transitions.

A board selects a set of issues to look at, using a filter.  A very common (and useful) approach is to use a board and project together, having a really simple and clear filter of "Project = X"

A board's columns are a collection of status.  The most simple case is that you have one column per status, but a lot of us have several status in a column.  This is purely down to the team using the board wanting different views.  Imagine your workflow includes several development status and several test status.  The developer board will probably want to lump all the test status together because they only care about pass or fail.  The tester board will take all the new and in-development status together as "not ready for testing yet"

So.  Your board can have whatever columns you want.  But to make it work, you need to have the underlying status in the workflow so that you can map them into the columns.

(Simplified workflow is another story.  It delegates the workflow edits to project admins so the system admins don't have to be a bottle-neck when you need change.  But the workflows generated have to be very simple)

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

When I select "Projects" then select the category for a project such as in our case "IT" then there are vertical columns named "To Do", "In progress", "QA" & "Done". The columns are populated by the individual tickets. It is one of those columns that I wish to create named "next" to put in between "In Progress" & "QA".

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald,

these are the agile board columns (vertical), not the swimlanes (horizontal).

Go to Configure Board, Columns Tab and add a new column of your choice.

So long

Thomas

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hi Thomas, 

I have successfully added a column in the "Configure Board->"Columns" view, but when I go back to view the sprint, the new column does not appear. Will it appear on the next sprint, or is there a way to get it to appear on the current sprint?

thanks

Steve

[Thomas Deiler]

Did you assign any status to the new column?

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

I'm afraid I cannot see anywhere in the interface to assign a status

[Thomas Deiler]

Please go back to configure board -> columns. By drag and drop you can add at least one status to this new column.

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

When I drag the status from one of the other boards it robs the doner column of a status. Is there a way to get a status onto the column other than dragging it from an existing column?

[Thomas Deiler]

No other way. But probable it is a good idea to wait until the end of the sprint, to inform all team mates that some thing new will happen in the next sprint.

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hi Thomas, 

Is there a way to create a new status to assign to the column or are you always stuck with 4 columns?

thanks

Steve

[Thomas Deiler]

^ continue reading on first answer ^

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hi Thomas, 

The article says I need to change to a simplified workflow. However when I look at the location to change to a simplified workflow, it says "This board is unable to use a Software Simplified Workflow." Am I now stuck and unable to create new statuses?

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

Hi Thomas, 

Yes we have full admin rights on Jira. 

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald,

btw: The link, I cannot follow.

What so you mean with 'new swimlane'? An new type or something different?

So long

Thomas

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald

this thread now tends more to "general configuration of an agile board" and not to "create a swimlane" ;)

Best you read this article.

If you have afterwards unanswered question - I will help you further.

So long

Thomas

[Thomas Deiler]

@Stephen Fitzgerald,

before we continue, do you have full admin rights on your Jira?

So long

Thomas

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald,

as the workflow of your board is not any more standard, you have to continue reading this article.

So long

Thomas