JIRA: how to have many Kanban boards for one project

Question

Here is the situation: I have one project with several issues relating to tasks our team has to complete. We (currently) have two "categories" of tasks to complete. Let's call them: "Environment Setup" and "Technical Debt Removal". I want a way to track whether tasks are completed, and who is working on what.

I have issues in my project that either relate to one or the other, not both.

I would like to have two separate Kanban boards to track the work on these two things independently.

How do I do this?

I have tried to create several boards within the project but this doesn't work, since all the issues show up in both.

Answer 1

What field are you entering the categories into? I would recommend using "component" (but using label or epic would also work) and then creating either quick filters or swimlanes for the 2 different components. This way they would live on the same board, but you can easily switch between quick filters to see only 1 category at a time.

But if you have your heart set on 2 different boards, you can easily do that also by changing the board configuration filter query. (Under General > Filter > Saved Filter > Edit Filter Query. JQL would be "component = Environment Setup". Then create a new board, with "component = Technical Debt Removal".