Tasks in Kanban using Taiga

[Bharath Bhushan Lohray]

Kanban has status for user stories, but not tasks or issues. While issues / tasks is the smaller unit of work.

A user story may be something like - "The user wants to export her/is data to Dropbox, iCloud, skyDrive or some cloud service".

This may require several tasks. While the tasks may be done in a sprint, the story may stretch across sprints. Jira seems to permit tasks, stories, bugs etc into the board.

But a good practice (as I have been told) is to have only the amount of tasks in a sprint that can be done within that sprint. How does taiga propose to work this? Why can I not put tasks and issues in the kanban? Why only user stories? What is the best practice for managing tasks in kanban using taiga?

[David Barragán]

Hi Bharath

- If you are using kanban you show a panel with USs iorganized in colums (of US status).

    * Kanban example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/kanban

- if you are using Scrum you see a backlog and you can define sprints and manage tasks across its statuses in the sprint taskboard.

    * Backlog example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/backlog

    * Sprint Taksboard example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/taskboard/first-act

- Or you can mix both in the same project.

It's strange mix USs, tasks and issues in the same panel because they have different workflows and different statuses.

This post https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/july/scrum-vs-kanban or this others, http://www.sitepoint.com/agile-team/ and https://blog.taiga.io/what-is-kanban.html, reflect clearly the benefits and drawbacks of using one or the other. For example, before Taiga was in production we use Scrum with sprint of two weeks because we know exactly how many works we can do, now we have many interruptions (answer support questions, review the mailing list, fix critical issues, manage social accounts...) so we've change to kanban.

I hope this be useful for you

Regards

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[Bharath Bhushan Lohray]

Hi David,

Thank you. This was useful. I had never created a sprint, so never saw a sprint board. I also did not know where to look for the sprint board. It would have been nice to see it as an icon on the left bar.

Also, is there a way to see issues in a similar manner? Can I have a unified view of tasks and issues? I have one issue in my sample board and it does not show on the sprint task board.

Thank you again :-)

- Bharath

On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 12:00:40 PM UTC-7, David Barragán wrote:

Hi Bharath

- If you are using kanban you show a panel with USs iorganized in colums (of US status).

    * Kanban example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/kanban

- if you are using Scrum you see a backlog and you can define sprints and manage tasks across its statuses in the sprint taskboard.

    * Backlog example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/backlog

    * Sprint Taksboard example: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/taskboard/first-act

- Or you can mix both in the same project.

It's strange mix USs, tasks and issues in the same panel because they have different workflows and different statuses.

This post https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/july/scrum-vs-kanban or this others, http://www.sitepoint.com/agile-team/ and https://blog.taiga.io/what-is-kanban.html, reflect clearly the benefits and drawbacks of using one or the other. For example, before Taiga was in production we use Scrum with sprint of two weeks because we know exactly how many works we can do, now we have many interruptions (answer support questions, review the mailing list, fix critical issues, manage social accounts...) so we've change to kanban.

I hope this be useful for you

Regards

[David Barragán]

No, we don't mix issues, tasks and USs.

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[Bharath Bhushan Lohray]

Okay.

But is there a way to view https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/issues?page=1 as columns, and move it across status columns?

Is such a thing a bad practice?

- Bharath.

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[David Barragán]

No, is not a but practice, it's a good idea. We have an enhancement https://tree.taiga.io/project/taiga/issue/2924 about that.

Thanks for your feedback.