We're doing pretty much straight Kanban (ie per David Anderson's definition/book) with some of our teams, and we're just not able to do it with greenhopper to date. The Rapid Board will solve part of our need (horizontal swimlanes), but isn't helping us with the metrics we need, and I can't find a way to do it in the product (and don't have the resources to do a lot of custom development to get decent Kanban support). Before we jump ship, thought I should throw out the question here. What we're looking for is:
- detail of amount of time an issue spends in a particular column (queue time, or column-cycle time). We can figure this out looking at the history in Jira, but that's tedious. And we can get a high-level rollup in the CFD. But we need an easier way to see it for all the issues at various levels (within the board, across teams, by class of service (currently work item type), etc.). For the board, if we could get the data behind the CFD (i.e. the start and end in each column for each issue) we could use that to get most of what we want - but I don't see a report or way to get that. And jira filters don't do enough with historical data like that.
- blocking duration - the amount of time an issue is blocked. This is critical for effectively dealing with cycle time. Some of our projects use kanban primarily to show the affects of blocks - blockages are an expected part of the process. But the 'blocking' support in GH is limited at best.
That's it for the major 'missing Kanban support'. Thanks, in advance.
