Re:Ask HN: What's your most useful Kanban system for small s...
by EduardMe on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:25PM
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Ok understood. We mostly don't use any estimates. Neither effort, nor time.
I have changed our boards to the main recommendations so far and now I hit some wall. Our QC is testing away a new internal release and getting back with the issues. But they create a new card in the "Test" list containing a check list with all the potential bugs they found, around 10-12 items.
Should they rather create single cards for each issue and push it into the inbox? I feel somehow its going against the system to summarize a dozen points in a kind of "Test Report Card".
Re:Ask HN: What's your most useful Kanban system for small s...
by olegious on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:41PM
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Typically bugs should go on an individual card. Yes, that will create many cards, but if they're small, then they'll be fixed quickly.
This is more of an art than a science, experiment with different approaches, read about how others are doing things and modify to match your own process.
For level of effort scoring, we just use a 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 system. Where 8 is too big to estimate and 1 is an hour or so. What happens if you misestimate? Unless something goes from 5 to 8, then it really doesn't matter because you should always be working on what's most important. If something goes from a 1 to a 5 and some commitment can't be met, then you must reduce the scope of the card or change the commitment. Don't waste too much time on the scoring, it isn't an exact science- spend more time ensuring you're working on the right things.