Smart-Kanban-Board

Special Thanks

• Chenyue Li (@Jimschenchen)
• Jerremy Lewis (@lewisjerremy)
• Ben Wood (@Braindamaged69)
• Caleb Wannamaker (@calebwannamaker)

Description

A kanban board is a popular organizational tool that helps the user to visualize workflow. This is done by taking a project, dividing it into smaller events, and then staging the events so that they can be moved through a pipeline of categories as they are completed. There is a standard of four categories to divide work into backlog, to do, doing, and done. These boards are typically done on a large surface like a whiteboard or a wall.

This typically does not work well for users that work in different locations (such as students) because they are not portable and take a lot of space. Another drawback is that when the user has lots of projects on the go, the board can become overwhelming with events.

Our SmartKanban application takes the fundamental principals of a physical kanban board and makes it digital. To solve the problem of overwhelming the user with events, we are in the process of developing an algorithm that considers the users availability for work, then decides the most important events for the day given the workload of events backlogged and their priority relative to other events. The most important events are then added to a daily kanban board for the user to complete.

Where to Find Latest Release

It can be found under "Release" panel.

How to Compile and Run

The Github Wiki link is here: https://github.com/CloudyYoung/Smart-Kanban-Board/wiki/Compile-and-Run-the-Application Notice that the wiki is updated, if you are running the project v2.0 for the first time, you need to follow the new configuration procedure.

Terminal Commands

The text-based terminal version supports limited functionalities which are sign in, display the boards, columns and events; the GUI supports full functionalities.

Welcome Page

• You will need to enter your account username and password to sign in.

Home Page

• help: list all the commands
• todao: Display the Today board
• overview: Display the Overview board
• board: List all the boards
• exit: Exit the program

Board Page

• back: Go back to previous page
• #id: Enter a column id to check a specific column

Column Page

• back: Go back to previous page
• #id: Enter an event id to check an specific event

References

Libraries

• Google Gson: https://github.com/google/gson

• JavaFX 11: https://openjfx.io/

Code snippet

Code snippet references are in the specific files and link is beside javadoc tag @see.