You won't see this feature being implemented for Jira Cora Server. Switch to Jira Work Management (the new Jira Core on Cloud) and you'll have a board solution build in. Don't count on any new features/functions for server. They won't come.

Any progress?

@Ben van den Berg, we are planning to release the cloud version in the next couple of months.

@C4F Technology. why is it not available for the cloud platform?

@C4F 

Hi guys,

We understand Kanban board is a very important but missing feature in Core and Service Desk projects (we know as we also use Jira internally), so we have tried hard to bring that to you via this plugin https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222860/jira-board

It has even more powerful features then Jira Core Board in cloud such as:

• Transition, rank issues anywhere on board based on workflow configuration (Yes you can configure multiple workflows per issue type).
• View and edit issue details via the full issue details view popup or even more handy with inline issue edit.
• Filtering issues based on assignee, labels or JQL based Quick Filters configured in Board Settings.
• Group issues by assignee, subtasks. You're able to collapse columns as well to make the board cleaner.
• Other powerful board settings: 
  • Column status mapping and other column mutations: create / delete / rename / reorder. Moreover, you can set column constraints (min / max) based on issue count.
  • Card colours based on issue types, priorities or even JQL for more advanced use cases.
  • Card Layouts settings to add more fields displayed to cards on board .

It's available now on Atlassian marketplace, you can try for free. We're always open for feedback and suggestions, feel free to contact us via https://c4f.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3

Thank you,

C4F

In 100 years will Atlassian add Kanban board to Jira Core?

In the era of remote work Kanban board is a must for any kind of project. Atlassian are you in the hibernation process in the next 95 years?
Kanban board is the most requested and voted feature for Jira Core since year 2015.

Probably #COVID2100 will appear before Kanban board!

We recently upgraded our Jira Server license in no small part due to this feature.

I evaluated the current state of Jira using a cloud trial to see what was new. Looked good and we pulled the trigger on upgrading our current server.

Much to my surprise, Jira Cloud and Jira Server are a lot more dissimilar than I was expecting.

Now debating if we try to refund our purchase or just learn to not trust Atlassian as much in the future...

As Atlassian owns Trello it should't be a problem to merge it to Jira Core Server

Hello, in the company I am working for, we use Jira server and not Jira cloud, so that it is very useful to have for all business models  the Jira kanban board.

For project management I can create tasks/User story but I cannot see them and organize on a board for priority and status.

In this case I cannot use business project management model but I have to switch to SW template  for the scope that I need.

Please, will you think to implement the Kanban board also for business  project management model with Jira server

Sorry but I just don't understand who is supposed to be the target audience for this software. Maybe someone who has been frozen for the past 10 years.

I have really tried to use it with my team, doomed to fail from the start. 

It is both bloated (slow, unfriendly UI) and crippled feature-wise (not having such a basic feature as agile boards in the standalone version? First version of iOS mobile app released a month ago?)

And the fact that this page took more than 20 second just to get the first response from the server kinda gives you a good picture of how snappy this thing is.

@Andrey Kozynets
Thanks, Andrey. The only problem that it doesnt say anywhere in this article that you can only create a board if you select "Project Management" template and (What a wonder!) when you create "Scrum" or "Kanban" project in Jira Core you dont (!!!) get a Scrum or a Kanban or any board. Despite the fact that boards are advertized as part of these templates in the "what is this" feature description.

This is so misleading to not say false advertizing

Павел Зайцев have you seen this https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracorecloud/working-with-boards-800712866.html and this https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-core/jira-core-means-business-introducing-boards-and-mobile-apps ?

The second link is kind of old, so not sure if this is still relevant. Also, some time ago you had to enable the boards feature in the 'labs' settings somewhere. Not sure if this is still necessary. 

How do I create a generic Kanban board in Cloud Jira Core? It is said here that it is available. But I have spent already two hours and cannot find any useful informatin on how to do it. Can you provide a ling to tutorial or simple step by step instruction, please? 

Yes, Jira Core on the cloud already have Kanbans, please implement it on the server release. We aren't asking for full software development tools, just a simple Kanban. It would be awesome for projects that aren't development.

I second that. Kanban Boards would be highly appreciated in JIRA Core Server. Kanban has been widely adopted by business departments with the lean approach.   

This is still a feature I would like to have. The Scrum/Kanban boards are not suitable for business users.

The fact we are all still asking for this is laughable. Be honest with us about the real reason you wont implement it Atlassian - you want us all to pay more money for Jira Software when we dont need it.

Hello,

I would also like to know whether you are planning to add this feature into Core

Hi,

Is there any update regarding this? This is very important for our organization.

Thanks.

This has been a common request from our customers. Please review this feature request.

Adding a basic Kanban board to Jira Core is pretty essential for anyone in our organization to actually want to use the product.  Without this there are better tools to implement issue tracking systems for non-software development users (e.g. HR, Finance, etc...).  I would say for us, most people want a kanban board and maybe scrum, but most people aren't doing software development.

"For the nearest future we've decided to prioritize other areas of the Jira Server roadmap, including: ...Improving performance of boards"

You can only improve the performance of a feature you offer, can't you? Ah, wait! That's irony, right?

"I want my Kanban Board" to the tune of Money for Nothing, no pun intended of course 

The reasoning here is completely flawed. Every major task management app these days includes some sort of Kanban board, and given that "Core" is actually a slimmed-down copy, there's no reason for them not to have included a Kanban board, except for - money. Denis is absolutely right about this. It was a business, not a user-decision.

While I really like Core for what it is, it cannot compete with 100s of other tools, unless you're already hooked to the Atlassian empire, paying thousands of USD a year.

My wife asked for divorce when she found out that Business Boards are missing in Jira Server. 

Thank you Atlassian !

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your interest in this issue.
This request is considered a potential addition to our longer-term roadmap.

We'll typically review this request in about 12 months time, at which point we’ll consider whether we need to alter its status.

For the nearest future we've decided to prioritize other areas of the Jira Server roadmap, including:

• Performance and stability improvements
• Archiving projects for improved performance
• Optimising the use of custom fields
• Improving performance of boards
• Improving Jira notifications
• Allowing users to edit shared filters and dashboards
• Mobile app for Jira Server

You can learn more about our approach to highly voted server suggestions here.

To learn more on how JAC suggestions are reviewed, see our updated workflow for server feature suggestions.

Kind regards,
Jira Server Product Management

I think @mkowalska is not being honest with us at all here and surprisingly we do notice that, because we are in the same business and we saw all such a tricks many times before.

The actual reason is different, it is called "Marketing" and "Money". Ask yourself why did they recently divided Jira into Core and Software. And why Software costs more. And would you buy Software if you had a proper Kanban board functionality in Core?

Dishonesty and marketing tricks will ruin you product and you, Gosia, don't do this.

Thank you, and please do not reply you appreciate the feedback, as we already know you really do.

Your angry customer.

But why is on cloud so?  We were testing firstly on cloud (I think almost everybody do that). We put a lot of work to know the product, find if fit to our needs.

Then it was budgeted. And after that on server shows up that there are no one of most important function.  

It could be ok, but the server version should have different name. f e:    "Jira server without board". Or disable board also in cloud version. So user at the beginning see what he wants to buy.  Now it is a little bit trickery:   User try something better, accept  the price , and  get something worse for the price. And You know exactly that it is work this way.

Aren't You ashamed? 

Hi all,

our business teams are willing to use Jira Core but missing a way to easy visualize their issues and workflow e.g. for teammeetings. The Kanban-boards would be the perfect way.

Using Jira Cloud is not an option for us.

When this feature will be implemented we would have a lot more users in the whole company.

Many thanks for considering the development again.

This is hands down the feature my users want the most so that's beyond disappointing. This feels like highway robbery.

This is why for our future investments we have priritized changes to mail server configuration.

lmao who's asking for that?

Hi all,

Thanks for participating in this issue, either by voting, commenting or watching. We value your feedback in all forms and suggestions in Jira.atlassian.com is no different.

Back in May, we commented on this issue with our decision to not prioritize boards in Jira Core Server in the immediate future. We have followed the conversation after the announcement and revisited this suggestion recently.

After looking at the entire set of requests, feedback and analytics across the Jira customer base, boards for Jira Core is not on our roadmap for the next 12 months.

I understand this decision will be disappointing to those of you who voted for this issue. This is why I wanted to bring more context around it.

This was one of the hardest calls we had to make recently. We are all aware that boards are important for Jira Core users. Still, we have to look at the broader picture of the Jira Server products as a whole and make sure that we prioritize our investments correctly.

We are seeing Jira deployments growing considerably, both in size and mission-criticality. As a result, we are prioritizing performance and stability investments in our current roadmap. While we would love to continue expanding the use cases for Jira Core with boards, we believe that investing in the core platform infrastructure to handle the user growth is our #1 priority.

We also realise that many asspects of Jira administration are challenging. This is why for our future investments we have priritized changes to mail server configuration. Also we are just about to release the ability to add different priorities for different projects. These are investments that will benefit both Jira Server and Jira Core.

We plan to revisit our decision regarding boards in 6 months and we'll keep you updated with any new information we have on this topic.

Even though we're not able to respond to every single comment you add, we really appreciate all of them as it helps us make better product decisions, so please keep them coming.

Thanks,

Gosia Kowalska
Senior Product Manager, Jira Server

Bump.

It's not clear to me why there isn't a Kanban board on JIRA Core, I mean, unless you want people to buy it for the cheaper price and then understand you can't really work with it so you have no choice but upgrade to JIRA Software...

I'm a project manager at a non-software company and JIRA Core is just a waste of time for me without it.

But you have to pay for JIRA software server users separately. JIRA core server licence for 25 users costs 1200 USD, JIRA software server licence for 25 users costs 1800 USD. It shows that the board costs around 600 USD. 

5th May 2017
...there are currently no plans to implement Boards for JIRA Core in the immediate future. 

Jakub Lazinski
Product Manager, JIRA

It would be understandable if the server version is just lagging behind a little, but to intentionally not build out a CORE feature of JIRA CORE that is a CORE part of your advertisement is simply:

FALSE ADVERTISING.

UPDATE: In the process of solving this with JIRA support.  I think it's going to work for us to add the JIRA Software application.

... install the Software application under the Administration page -> Applications Tab. Once Software is installed, you should run a reindex and verify that your Software-based projects are properly associated to the Software project type. During the Software installation process, you will be prompted for your license key. You can find your Software license at my.atlassian.com or you can generate an Eval license temporarily until you can input your Commercial license.

If you think it get's a lot of hate here check out the recent front page posts of the sysadmin subreddit. Just to give one example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6r2wy3/is_the_future_atlassian_a_go_cloud_or_gtfo/

Advertised in product features. Not in product. I love how much heat this thread gets...

Here for the party, advertising fail. But still glad were not on the cloud.

We moved to JIRA Server company wide (250 software + 250 core users) early this year based on the idea that some type of basic task board for the Core users would be forthcoming in an upcoming release. We are dedicated to Agile processes, and visibility/transparency is integral to our processes.  

We don't necessarily need Scrum or Kanban features in a Core board, even a basic task board that follows the base Core project type workflows would be better than nothing. Some of my business teams used an older instance of JIRA with Greenhopper boards for a number of years without problem.  We decide to spend a substantial amount of money to upgrade to the latest version and then find out that someone at Atlassian has decided that we don't need this feature. We look for tools that are adaptable to our processes. In this case, we are forced to change our processes to fit the limitations of a (very expensive) tool. Now I am faced with having to pay substantial extras to change my Core users to Software users (and for add-ons) just to have a task board which they already had prior to the upgrade.

Atlassian may be listening but they are just not hearing.

I have just spent half an hour looking for how to set up kanban board in my JIRA Core installation because I can see Kanban board on JIRA Core's webpage!!!

I'm testing JIRA Core to see how suitable it is for a non-sw-development team. It would seem it isn't. JIRA Software on the other hand is a bit too sw-development centric to be useful.

This is literally in the advertised feature set for JIRA Core, as the leading image no less - it seems insane that it isn't present given this. The split between cloud and server is also really disappointing. This does not seem to be clearly documented anywhere.

Clearly this has been implemented in cloud; so is there a timeframe on when this might arrive for server? Thanks.

+1

I am really frustrated with the absence of the board feature in JIRA Core Server. It is the most important feature of JIRA. If what Atlassian wants is JIRA Core Server without the board feature, they should at least clearly notice us the fact that the feature is only included in Cloud version and is missing in the Server version, especially before the payment. I'm deeply disappointed with you, Atlassian.

I echo everyone's sentiment here.  We want the Board feature without adding the complex JIRA Software functionality.  Like everyone else, I expected the same functionality from Cloud to Server and very disappointed after purchasing the Server version.

A cloud-first approach to products is a valid and perfectly understandable development strategy, but I fundamentally object to cloud versions having different features or just being better than on-premise versions. If you are planning to drop support for on-premise then be honest about it and give customers a timescale in which to migrate to cloud or find alternative products. The stealth approach of gradually hobbling the feature-set and capabilities of the on-premise version to the point where it is no longer a viable product is going to seriously anger your many passionate and loyal customers.

There are many very sound reasons why customers want or need to have an on-premise solution so this is not an acceptable situation.

Tested JIRA Core in the Cloud - boards and rankings where included - bought the Server lizences, and the most important Feature ist missing...

Thank you Atlassian!

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Tested JIRA Core in the Cloud - boards and rankings where included - bought the Server licenses, and the most important Feature ist missing...

Thank you Atlassian!

Hey guys,

Totally agree. I don't understand why this feature is not rolled out for JIRA Core Server. It adds very much value to the whole product !!!

Please rethink your decision.

Maybe you guys at Atlassian forget all customers in Europe, especially in Germany, with high statutory requirements at data protection. If we want to be sure, that everything is fine regarding data protection, we have to host software in our own datacenter or in a datacenter in europe. The easy way is a self-hosted server version.
Regarding this topic, I am disappointed from your decision. 
More than that, it is a reason not to use JIRA core for at least 25 employees outside the IT department. 
We made a test with JIRA Core CLOUD Version before we buy JIRA Server, and now we are more than disappointed... 

Discouraging to find out there is no boards in self hosted server.  Misleading , especially when there are clearly boards shown here:  https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/core

However ...  "JIRA Core cloud instances have boards" :/

+1, please add asap.

Deal. Breaker. Hello again Trello.

We just switched from JIRA code Cloud to JIRA Core server and we spent a lot of time trying to find the way to get our Kanban board back.

We just realize there sint such feature in server version.
very disappointing we have to say!!!

I actually know what I am missing... and I am not satisfied with it.

In many areas business tasks are ready for kanban board and lack of such functionality influences preception of JIRA Core system as a whole.

Please reconsider this request.

As someone who works with the Kanban Board with the DevOps department and without the board with Marketing / Product Management, I can guarantee you there is an incredible difference in user experience.

The board makes everything faster, easier and simply more efficient.

I am sure many JIRA Server Core users currently do not complain because they simply don't know what they are missing out on. Please don't withhold this awesome feature from them! 

P.D.: You should honestly give us open feedback about how you expect both product lines to develop in the future. If your stance is to leave the JIRA server version lacking significantly behind, please tell us so we can take this into consideration. As many have stated before, the current common belief is that you develop them on par with slight delays between each other.

As mentioned by dave.thomas318283010, I see also a huge problem with diverging products. In the end we will probably end up with six differend products

Having a leading feature available in JIRA Core (Cloud) and absent in JIRA Core (Server) is confusing and very disappointing.

Atlassian/Mike/Scott - your internal motto was 'Don't F**k the customer'. There are over 215 advanced users - the type of user who typically influences the system selection decision - who care enough about this feature to vote on this ticket.

So after two years of up-votes you decide to not implement what many of your customers consider an absolutely essential feature. Not very agile, I'm disappointed.

We just bought JIRA Core Server for our team in the hopes of eventually replacing our physical Kanban board with JIRA on a big screen. I was convinced that it would only be a matter of time until the top advertised feature from cloud would arrive on server. Guess I was wrong.