Problem Definition

As a configurer of an Agile board, similar to how I can configure my custom issue statuses to belong to one of the three options, I would also like to configure the columns on my agile board to be:

• Not Started
• In Progress
• Done

Currently the automatic assumption is that the very left column is Not Started and the very right column is Done.

This is a huge limitation in Jira Agile and causes problems especially with rendering the burndown chart.

I do not believe that asking the user to merge multiple of my columns into one or to create a separate Agile board is a sufficient solution for the issue.

Suggested Solution

Allow the ability to add additional columns to also represent Not Started and Done in addition to the ability to already add an In Progress column.

Note

Judging from the comments on GHS-10261 and GHS-11355 as well as this post on Atlassian Answers, I do feel that this is a feature of general interest.

Please stop closing every suggestion about this as "Answered" and leave any one of these three open for us to vote on.

Note: I am explicitly filing a duplicate of GHS-10261 and GHS-11355, both of which I find to have been closed prematurely.