A common pattern in Agile/Kanban is to limit the amount of work that is in-progress. Some agile tools allow you to enforce this very explicitly.
It'd be nice if I could set a maximum number of cards allowed in a given column (and obviously be able to change that number as our team grows or we adjust other aspects).
| rP Phabricator | |||
| D10276 | rP300910f462a3 Allow columns to have a point limit | ||
| D10277 | rPeaacb4a5113c Replace ActionHeader minicons with Font icons | ||
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T5885 Optional limits to Workboard columns (number of cards) | ||
| Resolved | epriestley | T4427 Add formal task points | ||
| Resolved | epriestley | T10328 Put task points into the card UI somehow |
T4427 discusses displaying a count, where the count is derived either by counting tasks or summing some "points" field on the tasks.
(It's slightly inconvenient to implement because we need to update it correctly when things are dragged around or added to a column.)
A thought I had was to let users set limits, but make them soft: you would be able to continue to move things into a column, but the column/count would be displayed in red or something like that if you hit the limit. It would be visually obvious that you were over the column limit, but not actually prevented. Would that satisfy your use case, or is it important to have a hard limit and prevent things from moving at all?
Soft (with associated "you did something bad!" red ;) ), would be good enough for me.