Swimlanes and grouping

Contents:

1 Available swimlanes
2 Grouping
3 Manage grouping
- 3.1 Activate grouping
- 3.2 Grouping combinations
- 3.3 Clear grouping
4 View adjustment

Available swimlanes

The new view lets you organize data into the following swimlanes:

Swimlane	Result

Swimlane	Result
Individuals	People assigned to tasks (assignee)
Teams	BigPicture teams (go to the teams module to review the teams).
Projects new	Sub-boxes (for a project box that would be lower-level boxes, such as Program Increments, Iterations, Stages, Sprints etc.; for a portfolio box those would be project boxes in a portfolio)
Skills New	BigPicture skills assigned to tasks

Grouping

The new grouping mechanism allows for a two-level grouping of tasks. Grouping provides you with better insight into your portfolio. Now, you can easily track things like individual allocation and workload across projects and teams.

Make sure to adjust the view to ensure you get most out of your data.

Thanks to grouping, you can get high-level insights into your projects on a portfolio level (see a few examples):

Based on assigned tasks, what is the workload assigned to each person in a project.

What percentage of individuals' capacity is allocated to a project.

Workload associated with timeboxes on a project level (insight into the person’s aggregate workload in each timebox)

Manage grouping

Activate grouping

Make sure to adjust the view to ensure you get most out of your data.

First, select the main swimlane. Then, select how to group the data further into additional swimlanes.

Note: Grouping is unavailable when the box you are in doesn’t have sub-boxes.

Grouping combinations

The new mechanism currently allows for the following grouping combinations:

Individuals by:
1. projects (sub-boxes)
2. teams
Teams by:
1. projects (sub-boxes)
2. individuals
projects (sub-boxes) by:
1. individuals
2. teams

Note: Skills swimlane coming soon.

Clear grouping

Click the orange dot to clear the grouping.

View adjustment

Make adjustments to ensure you get the insights you’re after.

Settings	Options

Settings	Options
Time period	Y - Year H - Half Year Q - Quater M - Month W - Week
Aggregation
Effort mode
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