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The previous Microsoft try at kanban added status on the card surface so that you had to set todo, in progress, done etc on the cards. This then created some sort of meta progress tracking. I found this to be too much when I just wanted columns tracking state.
I really think complexity subtracts from the appeal of kanban. It is easy to start with cards in 3 to 5 columns and everything after that starts messing with simplicity. Swimlanes can be harmless or they can morph many boards into a multidimensional project management puzzles. It depends. Carrie and Michael can easily have their own boards instead of being in swim lanes or you can add a lane for Carrie and Michael on…
I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature? I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway. Others don't seem to agree though.
(Noun, cf. JIRA) A process of systematically degrading a software system, e.g. in an attempt to monetize it.
I really think complexity subtracts from the appeal of kanban. It is easy to start with cards in 3 to 5 columns and everything after that starts messing with simplicity. Swimlanes can be harmless or they can morph many boards into a multidimensional project management puzzles. It depends. Carrie and Michael can easily have their own boards instead of being in swim lanes or you can add a lane for Carrie and Michael on…
How do you decide what gets placed on a specific Kanban board? In our Jira setup we use for scrum we basically have kanban boards per team (1 team = 1 jira project) for daily work in between sprint plannings. That means we basically have everything on there and swim lanes are helpful to keep track on what needs to get discussed in dailies (unassigned, high prio and not yet groomed, in progress or review and assigned…
In order of work assignment, traditional kanban is that when a person completes a task they then take the top card and work on that.
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How do you decide what gets placed on a specific Kanban board? In our Jira setup we use for scrum we basically have kanban boards per team (1 team = 1 jira project) for daily work in between sprint plannings. That means we basically have everything on there and swim lanes are helpful to keep track on what needs to get discussed in dailies (unassigned, high prio and not yet groomed, in progress or review and assigned…
For your workflow usually unassigned, to groom, in progress, review, done would be separate columns and the priority would be mapped to the order of the cards in the column. In order of work assignment, traditional kanban is that when a person completes a task they then take the top card and work on that.
People are complaining about Trello being old. I just set one up yesterday, because I couldn’t find a good casual/flexible alternative. And no, I’m not going to set up a whole notion just to put cards on a board. Coming from a place of extreme prejudice against and resentment towards Trello, I actually was pleasantly surprised. Not perfect but it still works well enough and has enough features to feel powerful. It se…