also sprach Laura Arjona Reina <larj...@debian.org> [2015-10-12 14:37 +0200]: > But!! I never used kanban and have no idea about it (apart from > being this coloured stickers thing for management). I just want to > help providing a free software based infrastructure for the system > people needs. If it does not fit, move to trash.
Kanban is dead simple (and "agile"! Yay!), and it'd be a huge step up from our current efforts of keeping track of things that need to be done, and who is doing stuff.¹ ¹) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_model The basic principle of Kanban is that tasks (cards) are publicly visible and attached to one of several workflow states (lists). Everyone can see which tasks are e.g. "to-do", which are "in-progress", and which are "done" (three lists), and people move tasks around to communicate progress. Additionally, for each task, notes can be kept, data collected, due dates defined, and people assigned. There are bits of information here: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trello - http://opensource.com/business/15/8/5-open-source-alternatives-trello Kanban could be a great tool for DebConf, because it's designed to let people pull work from queues, e.g. when they find free-time, or join the project late. However, I don't think it implements the concept of dependencies, and I am not sure we should try to do without. For instance, I do not see the point in having e.g. "getting t-shirts printed" show up as a to-do until a quote has been obtained, or registrations have opened and first numbers known. Rather, only tasks should show up as to-do when they can actually be done. And this is the domain of Gantt charts etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart However, those often scare people away and they are arguably more reminiscent of ancient development approaches. So something in the middle would be useful, e.g. a Kanban with a (implicit, automatic) list "waiting for other tasks", containing all the jobs that can't yet be done, and which are automatically moved to "to-do" as soon as the dependencies are completed. In addition, task views should quickly visualise priorities (e.g. using a bigger font size for more important stuff), and highlight overdue items. Does anyone know of such a tool? Or am I going down a garden path? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@debconf.org> @martinkrafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf16: Cape Town: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16 DebConf17 in your country? https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17
digital_signature_gpg.asc
Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)
_______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
