Scrum to Kanban

[Kim Lavery]

My company are using Jira and use SCRUM sprint but realize we would be better served with Kanban instead.  If I disable the 'Sprint' option in project settings of my active sprint, will it convert it to Kanban and all our refined stories would retain their current status or would I need to reset all the statuses and will I loose story history?  

[Ryan Smith · Accepted solution]

Found one finally:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211683/comala-canvas-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

[Alex Christensen]

This is definitely something that isn't out of the box. Jira Software boards are restricted to statuses only. If you want to break things up on the board further, I might suggest using swimlanes for that purpose - you can create swimlanes based on any queries you can create using a JQL search. There's even some default options like creating swimlanes for each assignee, as well.

[Alex Christensen]

Another thought is to use the quick filters that you can configure to appear at the top of the board. You could easily create one for each team member to quickly see what is assigned to that person, or easily filter by issue types, too.

[Ryan Smith]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately both suggestions are still limited to rows. I'm exploring 3rd party plugins now and hoping I can find one that gives me more control over columns.