The storyboard view should have swim lanes that allow for a logical breakup of the work for a given team. Either custom groupings similar to the roadmap view, or make it based on project or configurable to be based on some attribute of the backlog items.

If it's based on project, then selecting a parent-project would show you the swim lanes for each sub-project. Having it based on some attribute of the backlog item would probably be the most flexible since then you could create a custom column and the user could make the lanes anything they wanted.

by: Ryan D. | over a year ago | Tracking

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• Great request...I just posted this same idea to the Rally site as well and I'll repost it here to add more depth. People often seem to confuse the term "swimlane" with the vertical lines on the board, when here the idea (as I understand it) is are "horizontal" swim lanes:
  
  Horizontal swim lanes allow teams to establish WIP limits by work item type or class of service for a single team. For example, a team might be required to do:
  
  • Change Requests
  • Maintenance
  • New Features
  
  This work needs to be done at the same time, and so these work types define the horizontal swim lanes.
  
  The vertical queues might be something like:
  
  • Analysis
  • Development
  • Test
  
  No matter the work item type, there is only one WIP limit for each of the queues (e.g. Development...) Doesn't matter if it's a change request or a new feature, the team can only have X in development at a time (thus WIP controlled across work types).
  
  David Andersen (Father of Kanban) described it really well in his 2010 book. See pp120-121 in "Kanban"
  
  The horizontal swim lanes also allow you to set the capacity for each work item type as well, for example:
  
  • Change Requests: 6
  • Maintenance: 2
  • New Features: 15
  
  This means a team can have up to 15 new features on the active part of the board, but only 2 maintenance items and 6 chance requests.
  This is really important because now, not only can you control the total amount of work in development, but you can guarantee an amount of service for the various types of work, in a way that can be easily tweaked depending on changing demand.

  by: Kimon P. | over a year ago

• Swimlanes are now available as of the Summer '11 Release using the Group By feature on the Storyboard: http://community.versionone.com/Release%20Notes/ReleaseNotes2011Summer.aspx

  by: Mark Crowe | over a year ago

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