How to Create JIRA Kanban Boards [2022]

JIRA Kanban boards are the popular and effective component that supports agile practices by managing the tasks in smaller pieces. Organizations are relying on project management tools that can handle the business processes by collaborating and integrating and monitoring the workflows.

More than 65% people of in a survey accept that project management tools are positively impacting businesses. JIRA is one such popular project management tool that works with Kanban boards to handle agile projects. This article will guide you on how to create your first Kanban board.

JIRA – Project Management Tool
JIRA Boards
JIRA Kanban Boards
How to Open a JIRA Account
Create a JIRA Project
Creating Boards
Creating a New Kanban Board With Sample Data
Creating a New Kanban Board
Create Issues on Board
Frequently Asked Questions
Final Thoughts

JIRA – Project Management Tool

JIRA is an issue and project tracking software developed by Atlassian to make plans, track outages and manage agile project workflows. Though it was developed as a bug tracking system, then it upgraded its functionalities to become a popular project management tool.

JIRA supports all sorts of projects and they are well suited for agile projects. JIRA’s version management helps users to track the old and updated versions of the plans.

JIRA Boards

JIRA software furnishes two board templates like Scrum and Kanban. These boards are responsible for viewing issues from one or more projects. JIRA boards let users make separate columns according to the status of the projects and move cards among those categories.

JIRA Kanban Boards

JIRA Kanban board is a project automation tool used to track Kanban projects. These boards list tasks under categories like ideation, progression, and completion and limit the issues in each category. Kanban boards in JIRA are capable of listing the issues by applying various filters as per users’ interests.

How to Open a JIRA Account

Let us start with opening an online JIRA account.

Navigate to Atlassian’s JIRA software website for opening an online JIRA account.
Click on the “Get it for Free” option.”
From the website, select the “JIRA Service Management” option and click Next.

Enter your desired Atlassian site id which will let you create your account.

Create a JIRA Project

After creating an Atlassian account, log in to your JIRA account and create a new project template.

You will get to see a project template page.
Enter the project name. Example: JIRASample.
While entering the project name, the system will automatically generate a key concerning the project name.
Here the key name generated is JIR.

On this same page, you will also have recommendations for template and type.
Choose the suitable types and then click on create project.
These steps will create a new project with a new kanban board.

Creating Boards

Apart from creating boards along with project creations, JIRA software also allows users to create Kanban boards to list the required set of details from selected projects.

Click on the search button from the top right side of the screen.
This search tab will display issues, boards, projects, filters, and people.
These options help users in searching or creating boards or issues.
Now click on the board option.

Now JIRA software will display two board settings, users can choose either Scrum board or Kanban board.

Under the Kanban board category, JIRA provides two options “Create a Kanban board” and “Create a Kanban board with sample data”.

Creating a New Kanban Board With Sample Data

This option will simply create a Kanban board with the sample data from sample projects. Click on the create board option which will list issues from the sample projects as shown.

Creating a New Kanban Board

This option helps users to create boards on their preference. People have options to create boards based on new projects or existing projects or with already designed filters.

Board With New Software Project

From the list of options, select the “board created with a new project”.

Now enter the new project’s details and click on “create board”.

This sample shows you a board named “CREAT” for the project CREATE PROJECT”.

Board From an Existing Project

This option is more similar to the previous one. The only difference is, that this option helps users to create Kanban boards from already created projects.

Enter the board name as you like.
Select the project from the drop-down list box.

Then to create a new board, click on the “create board” button.
This example shows you a Kanban board named “Test board” which will display the action items of the project you select.

Board From Existing Saved Filter

This is another simplest way to create a board that includes data on certain operations. In some cases, we might need some specific information from multiple projects. In this case, users can use filters to display the required information. The best option in JIRA is that the users can save the filters and use them for other new boards as well.

After selecting the “boards with filter option”, fill in the board details.

Enter the board name as you like and then select the filters out of the saved filters.
Then click on create board option to list the relevant data as per the filters.
This sample shows you by creating a new board named “FILTERBOARD” with the save filter Filter for MYP Board.

Have a look at the created board.

Create Issues on Board

Board has multiple columns with multiple cards. Each card will determine the task to undergo or the issue to resolve.

To create an issue card, select the board under which you have to create a card.
Then click on the “create” option that appears among the other menus like filters, dashboards, and apps.
Now, enter the issue name and description from the create issue tab.

This option creates an issue card under the Kanban board. Here, you can see a sample issue called, “Learn JIRA”.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a JIRA Kanban Board?
JIRA Kanban boards are the visual representation of the work items or tasks of the project. They create a unified view of all the projects and tasks on a single screen with which all the users can keep track of all the workpieces anytime. These boards bring together clients, team members, managers, and other stakeholders together and maintain privacy by permission controls.
What are Kanban Backlogs?
Kanban backlogs include the work items that are yet to be delivered. These items appear on the leftmost columns before the to-do column. Pulling an item from this backlog to the to-so list means users will complete it within the stipulated time as per the standards.
Is Kanban Agile?
Kanban is an agile project management tool that optimizes the frequently changing workflows continuously. Kanban is capable of handling both agile and DevOps projects.

Final Thoughts

JIRA Kanban boards generally track outages and protect the quality of the agile projects. With this brief explanation on how to create a JIRA Kanban board, you can create your first JIRA Kanban board and actively track the Kanban projects. You can create a Kanban board with every project. Apart from this, you can also create boards on various projects with the preferrable filters. Kanban boards with filters allow you to view specific data from all the projects.

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Simon Calder

Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!