On 02/10/2015 03:03 PM, Arthur Richards wrote:
One of the main problems I've encountered with Phabricator workboards
is the duplication of information. Most workboard have the following
columns-
1. Backlog
2. In Dev
3. Needs Review
4. Done
If we follow the conventions that have been suggested, people only
assign tasks to themselves when they are ready to work on it, making
[2] redundant. The #Patch-for-Review tag makes [3] redundant and
closing tasks makes [4] redundant.
Workboards are partly a visual thing so you can easily see the state of
the sprint (or overall backlog).
Re #2, most of the time that's true (if it were always true, an
auto-transition would be useful). However, sometimes people are
specially assigned to things before they're about to start, for whatever
reason (e.g. they're the best person to work on it).
Re #3, this is definitely true. The best solution would probably be for
#Patch-for-Review to auto-transition from In Dev to Needs Review.
I completely agree that Done is not necessary.
Done is mainly useful for seeing what you've accomplished in a sprint.
However, if you create a new board for each sprint (as we will be doing
in the Collaboration team), you can simply filter the board to show all
Resolved tasks to see what part of the sprint commitment was accomplished.
Am I using workboards incorrectly. Is there something I am missing?
There are other possible columns. Some the Collaboration team currently
uses:
Sprint board:
---
Product Review - Not all teams have this, so it can not be a status.
This basically means it's a user-facing feature that our PM wants to
test before marking Done.
Scrum-of-scrums interdependencies
---
Backlog board:
---
Ready for next sprint
Story grooming/estimation
Design / Requirements
Backlog (default column)
---
We'll continue to refine it, but this shows some ways workboards can be
used non-redundantly.
P.S. I'm interested in what you said about dashboards ("I really like
that Phabricator lets you put different kinds of queries in multiple
columns on your dashboard"). Are these linkable? If so, it would be
great to have an example.
Matt Flaschen
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