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samchen2009 / ekanban

a kanban plugin for redmine
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eKanban flexibility #40

Open vossenjp opened 11 years ago

vossenjp commented 11 years ago

I think I know the answer but I will ask anyway. In addition to the expected use of displaying the status of issues, I'd like to use eKanban to create arbitrary card walls that have nothing to do with anything. Can I do that? As far as I can tell, I can't...

Use case: my team is located all over the US, and we need to do group planning, troubleshooting, etc. We need to use a card wall for various parts of this, but the usual "stickys" on the white board fail since we're dispersed.

For example, I want to create an arbitrary kanban with columns like: Background, Problem, Goal, Solutions, Plan, Follow-up. Then I want to have people just brain storm and create "stickys" and put them wherever they feel like it, then we review and discuss.

I have done that with http://code.google.com/p/kanbanik/ and am doing that with http://sourceforge.net/projects/kados/ but would (obviously) rather have it all in the same place as everything else, and we're looking at using Redmine.

Thoughts or ideas?

samchen2009 commented 11 years ago

I think you can have a try this, http://106.187.39.28/projects/mybloh/kanbans, see the 'free kanban demo‘ board, which may meet some of your requirements. What I have done are

  1. create a new 'tracker' with a 'free' workflow (can transit to arbitrary issue status). - No workflow.
  2. create kanban state for this new tracker.
  3. create kanban pane, with 'in progress' and 'auto' unchecked. - no WIP limit.
  4. create new issue in redmine, and assign to the new tracker, note some issue status cannot be selected, just select the workable and change it in Kanban later.
  5. go to Kanban, drag and drop,
vossenjp commented 11 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. OK, I see that in the demo. If I understand it:

If those things are true, this probably won't work for us because we create 30-40 cards in a single phone call and move them around a lot, and both of those are critical. Going away from the kanban page just to create a card, or having to dismiss a dialog isn't going to work.

We really need something almost totally unstructured; like a big blank board that we could draw columns, rows, lines, or nothing on, then the ability to create arbitrary cards and move them around to arbitrary locations on the board. That doesn't sound like either ekanban or that it would fit into Redmine very well. (If we go with Redmine we'll still use ekanban the way you're supposed to use it. :) Thanks!