JIRA Agile assumes that the statuses in the left-most column equate to Not Started and the statuses in the right-most column equate to Done. A more flexible implementation would allow us to use checkboxes when configuring our boards to indicate which column(s) are Not Started columns and which column(s) are Done columns.

For example, we use a four-step workflow for stories (Not Started->In Progress->In Review->Done). We also have the additional states of Blocked and Dropped which can be transitioned to from any state.

I'd like to set my Scrum Board up with six columns in this order (Not Started, In Progress, In Review, Done, Blocked, Dropped). But Done and Dropped need to share the last column--otherwise we have problems closing Sprints with a mixture of done and dropped stories or sub-tasks. When Done and Dropped share the last column, there is no visual indication the story (or task) is Done or Dropped unless the details of the story (or task) are inspected. Even worse, we had to allow transition of stories to Done from any state to match the transition to Dropped from any state. Otherwise, a user might attempt to drag a story from In Progress to Done (skipping In Review) and JIRA Agile would silently put it in Dropped state (since there is no legal transition from In Progress to Done).

On the left-side of the board, if I put Blocked to the left of Not Started, JIRA Agile counts my Not Started stories as In Progress when looking at the story point accumulation, which is incorrect.