With JIRA Software 7, projects are run with agile methodologies, either with Scrum or Kanban. When you first create your project, you will get an agile board for your project with a very straightforward setup, containing three columns: To Do, In Progress, and Done.
In this recipe, we will look at how to customize your agile board's column layout to better integrate with your development workflow process.
Proceed with the following steps to start customizing your agile board's column layout:
Browse to the agile board that you want to customize. You need to be the owner of the board to do this.
Select Board|Configure option from the upper-right corner of the board.
The recommended approach here is to enable and use the Simplified Workflow options, as shown in the screenshot that follows. By using this option, you can control both your workflow as well as your agile board's column layout, right here. JIRA will tell you if you have Simplified Workflow...