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Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by regularfry »

xet7 wrote: post #89
j1elo wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest, Wekan is a pretty weak implementation of Kanban: - No Search ( https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/552 ) - No WIP limits ( https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/783 ) - No Swimlanes ( https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/955 ) It's a bummer because in the current state, Wekan doesn't really provide much real management value. I really wanted to use it for Kanban, because it's one of the flagship appl…

Hi, I'm current maintainer of Wekan. Yes, Wekan does not have those features yet. Anyway, Wekan is being actively developed and features added. Wekan is friendly community driven project and welcomes all contributions. Some have commented on Wekan GitHub issues that they prefer to use Wekan, because some others project management tools are overkill, or don't have the same usability as Wekan. It depends on use case.

Thing is, it's specifically labeled a kanban board. WiP limits are fundamental to kanban. They're why kanban works. People may prefer it to other tools; that's fine, but it doesn't mean it's not missing the point by not being an actual kanban board implementation.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by xet7 »

regularfry wrote: post #91
xet7 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm current maintainer of Wekan. Yes, Wekan does not have those features yet. Anyway, Wekan is being actively developed and features added. Wekan is friendly community driven project and welcomes all contributions. Some have commented on Wekan GitHub issues that they prefer to use Wekan, because some others project management tools are overkill, or don't have the same usability as Wekan. It depends on use case.

Thing is, it's specifically labeled a kanban board. WiP limits are fundamental to kanban. They're why kanban works. People may prefer it to other tools; that's fine, but it doesn't mean it's not missing the point by not being an actual kanban board implementation.

Yes, Wekan has Kanban Board, but not full Kanban Method yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by tablet »

btown wrote: post #47
tadfisher wrote: post #11

If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal. Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]: - Nested columns in lanes - Rows for class-of-service - WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service) - Sub-boards for meta issues The actual…

Targetprocess.com had all these features - I loved swim lanes for projects - but the UI was unusably slow (clearly not designed with an app framework at the core) when we tried it two years ago. I've been looking for something better ever since.

It is faster now. Take a look at Fibery as well http://fibery.io/

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by twobyfour »

Fej wrote: post #74

Has anyone here had success with a personal kanban board? Considering it for myself, even if it isn't the intended use case.

There's a book called "Personal Kanban" about using Kanban to organize your own work. I liked some of the principles it espoused, but ultimately found it awkward to manage returned to a more traditional set of GTD lists.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by PeterStuer »

Fej wrote: post #74

Has anyone here had success with a personal kanban board? Considering it for myself, even if it isn't the intended use case.

Have a look at TasksInaBox ( https://tasksinabox.com/ ). What is nice is that besides the usual web and mobile apps, it also has a client living inside Outlook so you can create tasks from emails as they arrive in your inbox.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by alinspired »

xet7 wrote: post #69
alinspired wrote: post #59

what's the storage backed for this app ? Also shout out to https://greggigon.github.io/my-personal-kanban/ that is a simple and offline board

Hi, I'm current maintainer of Wekan. Wekan can be used locally on local network that is not connected to Internet. There is no offline sync yet. Wekan is made with Meteor.js Javascript framework, using Node.js and MongoDB as backend currently. There is possibility to use read-only mirroring to PostgreSQL using ToroDB: https://github.com/wekan/wekan-postgresql but currently there's this bug, please wait for it to be f…

Thank you!
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