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Use Case

Value Mapping Board

Category

Planning

Company/Team

Managed Projects

Both

Summary

Magic quadrant for mapping Jira issues value / cost tradeoffs

note

The paragraphs below outlines the specific use case. For more details about advanced features and complementary functionality we suggest to review Board dynamics section of this documentation.

The paragraphs below outlines the specific use case. For more details about advanced features and complementary functionality we suggest to review Board dynamics section of this documentation.

Detailed overview

How to create?

(1) Go to “My Boards“ section. If you do not have any active boards this going to be your default page.

Otherwise (if you already have one or few boards created) click on menu icon in top left corner to select “Manage Boards“

(2) Click on “Create board“, choose “Value Mapping Board“ and Next.

(3) On the initial configuration screen please specify

Depending on configuration of the Jira Project different fields could be used for Story Points, namely

  • Story Points for “Classic“ projects

  • Story point estimate for “Next Gen“ projects

If you try to use the wrong one an appropriate error message will be shown.

(4) Click “Create“

How to use?

(1) If you toggled for us to use label for the value field you will receive a board with predefined Columns and Swimlanes as well as all applicable Jira issues in “Others“ left column at the bottom.

If you specified the Value field used (probably one of the Custom Fields) you would need to populate few swimlanes to move the issues across. Just navigate to the space between swimlanes to add one or few

(2) Drag and drop issues between columns/swimlanes to assign Jira issues a) Cost in StoryPoints b) Value in the “props“ you choose. All the changes to Assignee field are applied automatically and you do not need to commit it after.

(3) To Edit column value, Change title, Add or Remove one move mouse to selected column and you will receive a tooltip with all the available options:

(4) Same applies to swimlanes: - navigate your mouse to one of them to Add, Edit or Delete

How to configure?

(1) Click settings icon in top right corner ..

.. to open “Board configuration“ screen.

(2) on “General” Tab you can amend

(3) on “Columns and Swimlanes“ tab you can change configuration of fields used respectively for Columns and Swimlanes. Swimlanes are optional. To remove them choose “-- none -- “ in popup.

Depending on configuration of the Jira Project different fields could be used for Story Points, namely

  • Story Points for “Classic“ projects

  • Story point estimate for “Next Gen“ projects

If you try to use the wrong one an appropriate error message will be shown.