Question About Kanban Boards

Posted by washere
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:03 PM

I think a browser based project for Hyper Plan would take a huge chunk of time (ie Andy’s money in reality). Further, the browsers would crash on the main strength and power of HP, large files with many cards. It would be just a commissioned toy at Andy’s expense. Soon forgotten and abandoned by a few.

Secondly, a Dropbox remote connection might be more wise, simply saving the working file in cloud and being able to work in it with a cache on desktop. There are various database locking algorithms for multi users. But the age old simple: one user at a time assess would be easy to implement. Also if gdrive or onedrive have easier protocols/API set to suit HP, then they can be used instead of it as well as Dropbox to save him time.

Finally, the project like any similars needs a large client base to find it, which means needing PR. To get PR, users are needed and word of mouth. Catch 22. The main way to have a breakthrough is to have an easier interface introduction for newbies to it AND also people who are not tech savvy.

This is a problem infoqube, similarly comprehensive and innovative, suffers from too. In HP’s case the cure is easy: free floating cards mode. The cards in free mode, can be auto-threaded together in ordered relationships to conform with current modes easily too. The user can then edit those threadings.

That free fliating mode would be the classic Visual/White/Cork Board of index cards a.k.a. Kanban everyone knows by sight and will dive in intuitively. HP would then be an enticing and easy self-training software and they learn more from there. And will then recommend it to others, mainly online which is what really matters. This is the key as simple logic shows.