The Kanban Open Source project for Jira Server

The Open-Source Overbaard project (formerly known as JirBan) of the Red Hat guys (JBoss division), wants to be a real alternative to the original Kanban board of Jira Software.

Here the links:

• Overbaard Open Source code
• Overbaard plugin for Jira 7 release download
• Overbaard plugin for Jira 8 release download

It’s very easy to install and configure. Just install as usual in the Jira Add-ons section.

Now you can go to the header menu and press “Boards” –> “Overbaard”

Then you can try to configure the first parameters: the custom field ID of the Rank field, Epic Link field and Epic Name field (those are System fields of Jira).

• Note, you can obtain the ID numbers of the custom fields using the plugin Support Admin Tools for Jira.

Now configure the board JSON settings… this is not easy for “human” people, but is very easy if you are developer or tech passionate.

You must change the JSON to match the values and names of your Projects.

{
“name”: “MrAddon Kanban board”,
“code”: “MRADDON”,
“states”: [
{
“name”: “My Backlog”,
“help”: “Queue of tasks”,
“backlog”: true
},
{
“name”: “My Selected for Development”,
“header”: “Development”,
“wip”: 2
},
{
“name”: “My In Progress”,
“header”: “Development”,
“wip”: 1
},
{
“name”: “My Rejected”,
“header”: “FINISH”
},
{
“name”: “My WIP”,
“header”: “FINISH”
},
{
“name”: “My Waiting”,
“header”: “FINISH”
},
{
“name”: “My Done”,
“header”: “FINISH”
}
],
“priorities”: [
{
“name”: “Highest”,
“colour”: “red”
},
{
“name”: “High”,
“colour”: “darkred”
},
{
“name”: “Medium”,
“colour”: “orange”
},
{
“name”: “Low”,
“colour”: “greenyellow”
},
{
“name”: “Lowest”,
“colour”: “green”
}
],
“issue-types”: [
{
“name”: “Task”,
“colour”: “blue”
},
{
“name”: “Historia”,
“colour”: “green”
},
{
“name”: “Bug”,
“colour”: “red”
},
{
“name”: “Subtarea”,
“colour”: “red”
},
{
“name”: “Épica”,
“colour”: “green”
}
],
“projects”: [
{
“code”: “KAN”,
“query-filter”: null,
“colour”: “#4667CA”,
“state-links”: {
“Backlog”: “My Backlog”,
“Selected for Development”: “My Selected for Development”,
“In Progress”: “My In Progress”,
“Done”: “My Done”,
“Waiting”: “My Waiting”,
“Rejected”: “My Rejected”,
“WIP”: “My WIP”
}
}
],
“linked-projects”: {}
}

Then after SAVE the code, you will be ready to see your first Kanban board in this new amazing system. You can combine/merge columns and WIPS, you can change the swimlanes in an easy way. You can collapse the columns, serach tickets. It’s a good work of the Red Hat team!

It’s a very nice job and once is configured is easy to work! And it’s FREE!

Some features we miss: background images, drag’n’drop possible, full-colored cards, a system to print the cards of the columns, auto-configuration using only JQL phrase,…

Other Kanban plugins to improve the usual Kanban Jira Software boards

As alternative we have developed some plugins to improve the usual Kanban boards of the Jira Software installations. Here the links:

• Kanban Combined WIP for Jira
• Issue Card Printer for Jira

Versions available for Jira Software Server 7 and 8, Jira Cloud and Jira DataCenter.

By MrAddon