Projects: Board swimlanes

Summary

We are providing users with the ability to specify a field as a swimlane on their boards, allowing them to view their items in a horizontal grouping to visually separate and distinguish between work that belongs to different workstreams, team members, or priorities.

Intended Outcome

By providing users with the ability to specify a field as a swimlane on their boards, we can help them with tasks such as

Viewing high priority items alongside items with lower priority, to help draw attention to the most important work and what requires immediate attention
Viewing different work streams side-by-side to view the progress of the work for ongoing projects and across teams in a single view
Viewing items across team members to see how work breaks down within the team and how it is progressing together

This swimlane view gives users a single zoomed out or stacked view that allows them to stay in one place, without losing the context of how this work compares to each other and is progressing together.

How will it work?

Users will be able to specify a field as a swimlane that is unique to each board. The swimlanes act as a horizontal grouping on board layouts, and items will be able to be moved between swimlanes to make adjustments and update the field value.

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