Kanban

Kanban is an Agile based methodology which enables you to

• Visualize the Workflow
• Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
• Manage Flow

Board Wars Kanban has Kanban board for managing workflow, visualizing tasks, columns across all projects.

Project

A project is an umbrella for a sequence of tasks. It contains columns, tasks, subtasks.

• Mandatory
  • Name: Name of the project.
  • Status: If the status should be active or inactive.
  • Description: Description of project created.
  • Start Date: The start date is automatically generated as the day of creation.
  • End Date: Possibly project completion date.
• Optional
  • Tag: Tags associated with the project.
  • User Management: Set of Individuals involved in the project. Either private or team based.

Column

Columns help to organize our tasks in a more logically packaged way.

• Mandatory
  • Name: Unique Name of the column.
  • Description: Description of column created.
  • Task Limit: Limit of all task that a column can hold.
• Optional
  • Color Code: Color code associated with the column.

Task

A task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time. Tasks are created based on Project and Column selected.

• Mandatory
  • Title: Title of the task.
  • Description: HTML formatted description of the task created.
  • Assignee: The user name of the person the created task is being assigned to.
  • Start Date: The period in which the task officially starts.
  • End Date: Possibly task completion date.
  • Category: The section in which the task created belongs to. The following categories are listed in order of priority/intensity
    • Low
    • Subtle
    • Average
    • High
    • Danger
• Optional
  • Tag: Tags associated with the task.

A task can be adjusted and critical information can be communicated to other team members about the task using a task comment.

Tasks can also be moved from a column to another within the project. This is an excellent way of showing the progression of the task since the point of creation.