5.1. Kanban Project board

 

 

 

Kanban (Japanese signboard) is a lean method to manage and improve work across human systems. This approach aims to manage work by balancing demands with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks.

 

Work items are visualized to give participants a view of progress and process, from start to finish - usually via a Kanban board. Work is pulled as capacity permits, rather than work being pushed into the process when requested.

 

 

 

If you want to use a Kanban, you need to configure the columns you want. It's up to you to decide how much columns you want. In most cases this will be 3 up to 5 columns. For each column you can define the value of the status.

 

Each item will also get this status, to define in which column it must be shown. Moving an item from one column to another, will also change the status of that item. If there is a maximum number of items that can be added to a column, if the maximum is reached, it won't be possible to add extra items. Last is to define if it should be possible to collapse the column.

 

Next step is to define the data you want to hold for each item. There is some typical data as: who, what and status. However you can keep a lot of extra information for each item. When adding or editing a Kanban item you will get a modal form. The content and the layout of the form is defined by the iApi.

 

 

 

 

 

The following code in the menu creates a project board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At startup BOA will send the request from the menu to the endpoint to get the data for the configuation of the Kanban.

 

Request: url/endpoint?key=itemid

 

Sample: url/files/projects?key=EON

 

Result: columns for the Kanban project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the project is started and the request to get the columns is send and received, BOA will fill the board with the existing items. The request is send to the onclick endpoint from the kanban json data.

 

Request: url/onclick.endpoint?key=itemid&labels=1

 

Sample: url/files/projdata?key=EON&labels=1

 

Result: items for the Kanban project.

 

 

 

inputtype sort: this is a form element to define the sortorder in the columns. An item can be moved in the column. To save the new position there is a special inputtype needed. This will be send to the endpoint with a PUT. When an item is moved in a column, all the items from that column can get a new order. In that case all the new positions will be send to the endpoint in one request.

 

data: There can be extra data elements that can be used when editing or adding an item. A complete form will appear, and all the data can be filled in. So also data that isn't visible in the project board itself.