We use kanban for the Brackets[1] project, so I've been looking into tools like this recently. The most promising one I've seen so far is Octokan[2]. What I like about Octokan is that it:
1. uses GitHub Issue labels to represent the columns (unlike Waffle)
2. doesn't require all of our open issues to be "on the board"
3. is faster than Huboard
4. uses horizontal scrolling with fixed width columns like Trello rather than trying to pack all of the columns into the width of the window (also in contrast to Huboard)
We currently use Trello for our backlog and kanban[3] but it is kind of painful to synchronize this with GitHub (and so we don't... there's a lot of "small item" work that happens only in GitHub and is not tracked through our kanban flow).
None of the tools I've seen provide us with cycle time and throughput metrics, which is a drag. We're likely to write a script to pull the data out of GitHub and calculate those values. (GitHub, alas, does not track when labels are added or removed... so we have to start there in our custom work.)
I think it's great that there are people building better visualizations on top of GitHub Issues and I'm looking forward to seeing how tools like Waffle, Octokan, Huboard, etc. evolve.
1. uses GitHub Issue labels to represent the columns (unlike Waffle) 2. doesn't require all of our open issues to be "on the board" 3. is faster than Huboard 4. uses horizontal scrolling with fixed width columns like Trello rather than trying to pack all of the columns into the width of the window (also in contrast to Huboard)
We currently use Trello for our backlog and kanban[3] but it is kind of painful to synchronize this with GitHub (and so we don't... there's a lot of "small item" work that happens only in GitHub and is not tracked through our kanban flow).
None of the tools I've seen provide us with cycle time and throughput metrics, which is a drag. We're likely to write a script to pull the data out of GitHub and calculate those values. (GitHub, alas, does not track when labels are added or removed... so we have to start there in our custom work.)
I think it's great that there are people building better visualizations on top of GitHub Issues and I'm looking forward to seeing how tools like Waffle, Octokan, Huboard, etc. evolve.
[1]: http://brackets.io [2]: http://octokan.com/ [3]: https://trello.com/b/LCDud1Nd/brackets