kanban_features.md

Table of Contents

• 1. Kanban/PM tool features
  • 1.1. Blossom
    • 1.1.1. Bad
    • 1.1.2. Good
  • 1.2. Sprint.ly
    • 1.2.1. Bad
    • 1.2.2. Good

Kanban/PM tool features

Blossom

Bad

1. No data export/import

2. No tagging

   1. Good for understanding related cards and so forth

3. Can't move cards between boards

4. No aggregate view

   1. Multiple boards

   2. Multiple cards

5. Markdown support

6. At-a-glance status

   1. Not sure what this should be, but I'm thinking progress bars, colors cards, etc.

7. Long development times & unresponsiveness on "idea tracker"

   1. Most "ideas" with a respose haven't budged in months or year+

8. No "mentions" in comments or checklists

   1. Hipchat-, Twitter- or facebook-style (etc.) mentions are a must

Good

1. Focused on features, not user stories

2. Work capacity first-class UI element

   1. As in the "Implementation" column having a "x of y" indicator

3. Roadmap feature

4. Simple, fast UI

5. Github integration good enough overall

   1. Still some bugs/glitches/UX problems to work out

6. Statistics ("Analytics")

Sprint.ly

Bad

1. Slow, complicated, cluttered UI

2. No data export/import

3. No tagging?

4. Can't move cards between boards

5. No aggregate view

   1. Multiple boards

   2. Multiple cards

6. User management

   1. This was absolutely awful, but mostly relates to crummy UI

7. Focus on user stories could grow unwieldy, or be inappropriate

   1. "As a developer I want to…" stories were weird

   2. Ditto weirdness w/ e.g. "As a services person, I want to not…"

Good

1. Decent at-a-glance status via colors

   1. Still wound up a bit too cluttered iirc

2. Solid github/hipchat integration