Today is the traditional date for announcing improbable projects and absurd collaborations, so here’s mine. Kanbo is a task board based vaguely on the boards used in agle-development approaches like Scrum and Kanban (and variations with names like Scrum-ban, Lean, Agile, and what-have-you). Read more
The current Kanbo prototype refers to the cards you drag around the board as ‘stories’, but depending on the flavour of agile development you are pursuing, it should instead have tasks, or even both stories and tasks. Read more
The plan with Kanbo is to skip having priority fields for tasks and instead to just let the cards be rearranged in whatever order you like. This poses a couple of technical challenges: first, the only nice user interface for rearranging things is drag-and-drop, and second, relational databases are notoriously wedded to the idea that entities are an unordered set, so how should the order be represented? Read more
I have installed PyPy on my server and switched my Kanbo test server to run on PyPy. Read more
One of the principles I am following with Kanbo is that it is not intended to replace your existing task tracker, assuming you have one. Instead the plan is to extract just enough information to display the task board with draggable cards and leave task descriptions, comments, risk assessments, estimates, etc., to your existing tracker. For this to work we need to be able to link to the othe tracker. Read more
I have been neglecting Kanbo while job-seeking and doing freelance jobs, but today I did one token update: I added a bookmarklet on the details page of a board that can be used as a shorthand to add a card to that board. Read more