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JIRA Agile Essentials

You're reading from   JIRA Agile Essentials Bring the power of Agile to Atlassian JIRA and run your projects efficiently with Scrum and Kanban

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Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394912
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Working with swimlanes

Swimlanes are the horizontal counterparts to columns on a board. Unlike columns, which are always mapped to issue statuses, you can base your swimlanes on several criteria:

  • Queries: These are JIRA search queries constructed with JQL. With this option, each swimlane will only show results from its own query. For example, you can create a query for each priority value, so you can group your issues based on their importance.
  • Stories: Each swimlane will be mapped to a story. All sub-tasks that fall under the story will be displayed in the swimlane.
  • Assignees: Each swimlane will be mapped based on the issue's assignee.
  • Epics: Each swimlane will be mapped to an epic. All issues that fall under the epic will be displayed in the swimlane.

Using swimlanes is a great way to group and categorize your issues on your Scrum board. For example, with the Assignees option, you can easily get an idea of each team member's workload by just looking at the board. The following screenshot...

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