On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 03:58:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org> [2015-10-12 14:37 +0200]: > > But!! I never used kanban and have no idea about it (apart from > > being this coloured stickers thing for management). I just want to > > help providing a free software based infrastructure for the system > > people needs. If it does not fit, move to trash. > Kanban is dead simple (and "agile"! Yay!), and it'd be a huge step > up from our current efforts of keeping track of things that need to > be done, and who is doing stuff. Kanban also has no concept at all of deadlines; it's entirely oriented around continuous delivery streams. This makes it a pretty poor fit for a conference which does have a very specific, very hard deadline. I wouldn't recommend it at all for conference prep. > Rather, only tasks should show up as to-do when they can actually be > done. And this is the domain of Gantt charts etc. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart > However, those often scare people away and they are arguably more > reminiscent of ancient development approaches. A Gantt chart is certainly a better fit for the kind of project tracking involved in preparing a conference. I may have suggested Gantt charts during the DC14 planning; people may have assumed I was joking. I also agree with the sentiment that Gantt charts have an unfortunate tendency to be heavyweight and high overhead. And I don't know of any open source implementations. So yes, I think the right answer lies somewhere between these two extremes, but I don't know what that looks like ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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