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 acrhived.

  • 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​

Cons:

• Cannot set owner

• Cannot move card across projects

• No card history

Cons:

• No Google Signin

​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:

​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)