Different workflows in same board

To visualise my entire SDLC in one board I want the entire life cycle in my board (backlog, To Do, Analysis and Design), Build, Test, UAT, Deployment and Done)

An analysis task is created for every Epic first. This task is pulled into ‘Analysis and Design’ to break the entire epic into multiple individual development tasks. Post this, it skips all the stages and directly moves to done.

The developer pulls the task created in analysis from ‘to do’ to ‘build’ and it goes through all the stages in the board.

This results in 2 workflow in the same board(analysis task that skips build etc and goes to done and the actual development task moves from ‘to do’ to build (skips analysis stage) but goes through all the rest.

Is this a right way to approach? I don’t want to break them into different boards as it defeats the purpose to visualise the entire flow (soup to nuts). Would like to hear your experience and expert suggestions

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Hi @Balaji Sundaram ,

There are different ways to approach this. You could create a new issue type 'analysis' with a dedicated workflow with three statuses, 'Backlog", "Analysis and design", "Done", where the initial status is "Backlog". Then you can have another issue type "task" with a dedicated workflow as well with all the statuses that you mentioned except for "Backlog" and "Analysis and design", where the initial status is "To do". Then, configure the board to include these two issue types with the statuses mapped to columns.