GTD

Wants

• Expose visibility

• Ownership

• Card history

• Card Comments

• More than just comments, but a project space within the card

• SSO

• Google Signin

• Archive Board/Cards/Tasks/Checklist

• Search

• API/CommandLine

• Analytics

• Keyboard Shortcuts

• Nested tasks expose comments

• Blockers

• Emails alerts/notifications

• Task properties:

  • Title

  • Description

  • Owner

  • File Attachments

  • Audit Log

  • Comment Thread

    • Able to tag users

  • Notes

  • Checklist

  • Subtasks

  • Archive task

    • Does not mean a task is closed.

    • When a task is closed, it doesn't mean its completed. It means its archived.

  • Progress tracker

    • Track task state

    • Tasks should not be in multiple states

    • Subtasks could be in different states

  • Tasks should be able to categorized on multiple axes, for example:

    • Semantic Release

    • Priority

    • Status/Progress. For example: Starting, In Process, In Review, Completed

    • Hashtags

    • Colors

• Comparison of Kanban software

Asana

• https://blog.asana.com/2016/11/introducing-boards/

Pros:

• Free

• Subtasks

• Attachments

• Merge tasks

• Calendar View

• Workspaces

Cons:

• No lanes.

• Tasks are not linked across projects

• Shortish URLs

• No Time Tracking built in

Assembla Projects

Pros:

• 14 day free trial, $7.50/user/month

• Tasks can't be linked across spaces

• Tasks can be marked as: Parent, Child, Duplicated, Related, Subtask, Before, After

• Milestones feature

Cons:

• No Lanes

• Spaces name can't be dupilcated

• Long URLs

• Deleting a task reuses the unique id

• Very slow

BaseCamp

Github Projects

Pros:

• Not all cards have to be issues

• Cards can be:

  • PR

  • Issue

• Cards can have individual links but open to the board page

Cons:

• Cannot move card across projects

• No card history

• Kanban

  • No swim lanes

• No Google Sign in

• You can't subscribe to a project

invision

More design oriented

KanbanFlow

Pros:

• Free tier. $5/user/month

• Owner

Cons:

• Linking to cards requires a secondary action

• Cannot merge or duplicate cards

• Search restricted to Pro features

Kanbanize

Pros:

• Lanes

Cons:

• Interface is old

• Interface feels very clunky

• Can get very confusing

• Cannot easily see what each owner is supposed to do

• No overview

Kanban Tool

Pros:

• Price: Free Tier, $5/user/month

• 14 day free trial

• Lanes

• Calendar

• Easy Archiving

• Owner

• Folders for boards

• Board Templates

• ACL on boards

Cons:

Notion.so

Pros:

• Items have a URL

• Items can be given a status and assign

Cons:

• No swim lanes

• Default Kanban doesn't even fit nicely in a 1280 window

• Lots of white space

Notes:

• Item "Status" is the same as Column

• You have to click "Open as Page" to take the full screen of the page...

Pivotal Tracker

Pros:

• Story Type: Feature/Bug/Chore/Release

Others:

• Points

• Requester

• Owners

Trello

Pros:

• Free Tier

• Archive Column/List

Other:

• Business: $9.99/user/month

tuleap

Pros:

• Open Source

• Docker image

Cons:

• UI is very cluttered. Too much information.

• Online demo is slow.

Time Tracking

Requirements:

• Integration with Asana

• Device support

  • Web

  • iPhone

  • Apple Watch

  • iPad (Not necessary)