I'd like to have an option to manage the next-gen project in the following way:
- Epics are atomically shippable product increments. Ex. "Payments in Mobile app", "Weekly bugfix", "Leaderboard improvements on the website".
- Epics workflow: backlog -> in short term -> in solution -> in backend -> in frontend -> in qa -> accepted for release -> in release -> in release qa -> shipped.
- Every epic (or at least epics which passed in solution column) is supposed to include a list of tasks, which the team considers as a plan to deliver the epic.
- Tasks workflow: todo -> in progress -> in review -> done
Gantt chart for Epics (which is already implemented in Next-Gen projects) is a crucial feature to visualize the plan and see high-level progress. That just brilliant and I'm so happy to have this feature available in Next-projects.
But, in addition to Gantt chart / Roadmap, I'd like to have an option to control the consistency of the delivery flow and easily detect flow interruptions when I have too many epics in the single column or too little / nothing in another. So, for me, the Epics board would help a lot to manage the speed and quality of delivery.
As you know, the current implementation of Next-gen projects includes only Task board, which provides value for individual team members to easily manage their assignments and observe colleagues' assignments. But, for me (as a product manager), the Task board cannot provide wanted ability to control the consistency of the flow.
Moreover, currently, that's not possible to change the Epics workflow and have states other than todo -> in progress -> done, which doesn't make sense to me.
So I hope, that further versions of Next-gen projects will provide an ability to manage Epics workflow and control flow consistency for epics delivery (for me, that would be enough to have Epics board in order to achieve that),
Also, I would be glad to hear any feedback and advice from the community on how to control the consistency of the flow for my use-case in Next-gen projects.
