how to order kanban board by priority

[Rottem]

Hi!

How I can I arrange the kanban board so it will show cards according to priority?

High priority cards in top, low priority in bottom

Thanks!

[George Mihailoff]

Swimlanes are a great way to visualize different classes of work, be it a priority or something else. As @Fazila Ashraf mentioned, you can use swimlanes by priority in classic projects.

Keep in mind that "expedite" is a form of technical debt -- it essentially delays other work. As long as you make a conscious tradeoff between the risk of not reacting fast enough and delay then it is totally fine.

[Rottem]

That was really helpful!

thank you!

[John Funk]

Hi Rottem - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can add this to the end of your board filter (replacing ORDER BY Rank if it is there):

ORDER BY Priority ASC (or DESC depending on what you need)

Here are the caveats - this will apply to all columns, including the Backlog, for your board. And you will not be able to change priorities by dragging cards up or down the column. 

Also, it will put the cards in order by priority Alphabetically. So if you don't like the order, you will have to change the names of your priorities to be in line with what you want. 

[Vaclav]

Hi John,

I really appreciate you are trying to help, but why don't you use some print screens? To describe something like: "You can add this to the end of your board filter" is not very helpful. Which end of the board filter? What board type are you even talking about? Kanban, Scrum?

Thank you

[Fazila Ashraf]

@Rottem  , what we do is - 'use a swimlane' by priority. 

It groups together all issues by priority and we expand and analyze each of them accordingly.

Check whether it helps your scenario also

[Patricia Francezi]

Hi @Rottem 

Although Jira does not support this out of box, I found some solutions in this post that may help you

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Order-Issues-in-Planning-board-Priority/qaq-p/432161