Organizing your Kanban board with swimlanes

Swimlanes are a useful way to group and organize your issues on your Kanban board. For example, you can use swimlanes to represent priorities and divide issues based on owners or types.

By default, when you first create a new Kanban board, you will have two swimlanes, but you can also create your own custom ones. For example, as shown in the following screenshot, we have three swimlanes: the Expedite and the Everything Else swimlanes are created along with your board, and the Bugs swimlane in the middle is a custom swimlane we have added:

To customize swimlanes for your Kanban board, perform the ...

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