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💤 [Not maintained] Analyse Kanban metrics from a Trello board -
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Count items in checklists inside cards #50

Open millergarym opened 7 years ago

millergarym commented 7 years ago

We find it useful to maintain part of the backlog inside cards as checklists. The items are then turned into cards and moved through the lists. Would it be useful to (optionally) count checklist items in side cards?

nicoespeon commented 7 years ago

Hi @millergarym!

Thanks for sharing your experience / workflow 👍

The question is: do you need to know how much time these checklists items spend from their creation to the moment they are converted into cards? Or I didn't quite get your question. If so, let me know 😄

IMO that's ok to start monitoring the work when tasks actually are cards. Keeping a large backlog of "cards-to-be" in checklist sounds like an "Icebox" to me: things that we might do later, but we're not sure yet.

If this is not the case and those are actual cards to be done, then I don't understand why there are not cards in the beginning. Thus, this would seem to be a too specific to be handled in a generic library − but a good candidate for a fork you can customize to address your specificities.

But I'd first go and check "why are we doing that" − the root cause − and wonder if there might be another "standard" way to address the need − e.g. there are power-ups to link parent-children cards if the need is to keep track of a feature-related bunch of cards.