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Posted by Ken
Dec 18, 2018 at 05:39 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I am not a big user of Kanban boards, though I do find them useful for
>tracking certain things (for instance, I use Trello to track printing
>and reprinting of books for the nonprofit publisher I work for). What
>you might find useful is an app like Asana, which allows you to view
>projects in Kanban boards, but also has other views. This way you can
>use the Kanban view when it is applicable, but also have other views for
>the big overviews you are looking. The free version of Asana is very
>useable.
>
>Steve Z.
I tried Asana for some time a few years ago, but two big things turned me off. First, they removed the tag navigation pane in the left column, and that just seemed plain stupid to me. Second, their comment section is combined with their activities, and their activities records everything, including when I yawn and burp. It was almost impossible to use the comments section as it was so cluttered. But, yes, Asana has a lot of useful features. If only they could clean up these UI issues, then I would reconsider.
—Ken
Posted by Andy Brice
Dec 18, 2018 at 02:23 PM
Hyper Plan allows you to:
-group tasks into swim lanes and columns
-colour-code cards (e.g. red=high priority)
-filter cards (e.g. hide all cards except those for project 1)
-switch ‘views’ so you can easily switch between different layouts/filters etc
It sounds like a fairly good fit for what you are trying to do.
It is desktop-based (Windows or Mac), but you can share a plan between multiple computers using DropBox or similar.
There is a free trial:
https://www.hyperplan.com/download.html
—
Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by Ken
Dec 18, 2018 at 04:48 PM
Andy Brice wrote:
Hyper Plan allows you to:
>
>-group tasks into swim lanes and columns
>-colour-code cards (e.g. red=high priority)
>-filter cards (e.g. hide all cards except those for project 1)
>-switch ‘views’ so you can easily switch between different
>layouts/filters etc
>
>It sounds like a fairly good fit for what you are trying to do.
>
>It is desktop-based (Windows or Mac), but you can share a plan between
>multiple computers using DropBox or similar.
>
>There is a free trial:
>https://www.hyperplan.com/download.html
>
>—
>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com
>
Hyper Plan did come to mind when I wrote the OP, but I also wanted hear how others use Kanban boards to manage multiple projects. The question was somewhat academic as I wanted to see if I was taking a limited view of Kanban boards. I still do not believe that it is the best solution for the way I work, but if you do not ask, you never know what is or is not possible.
—Ken
Posted by washere
Dec 18, 2018 at 10:49 PM
A good desktop White-Board is one of a few genres with no niche market leader in the public psyche, and no established brand in popular IT culture. If anyone does a good job of a free floating board for desktop, offline for privacy primarily, they will brand the niche genre for themselves and will be multi millionaires.
If I remember correctly Andy has a free-floating feature in the works for hyper plan for some time now, but others are probably working on similar projects. For market dominance, with a good enough start, it’s first come first served and winner takes all, or almost all as the established market leader name and brand. Once owned and entrenched, the brand goes viral by itself, long term.
Posted by Andy Brice
Dec 19, 2018 at 10:01 AM
washere wrote:
>If anyone does a good job of a free floating board for desktop,
>offline for privacy primarily, they will brand the niche genre for
>themselves and will be multi millionaires.
Do you mean a feature to freely place cards (rather than constrain them to columns and swim-lanes)? If so, that is high on the wishlist for v3. I don’t know about multi-millionaire though. Kanban/project management/productivity is a very crowded market and it is not easy to get noticed, especially when you are up against competitors with vast amounts of VC cash to throw around.
—
Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com