Multiple projects on same board

Multiple projects on board

The problem

When you have many small projects or for example many repositories composing single project sometimes it is useful to see all of them on a single board to get the whole picture of what's going on in project.

Also we should take into account multiple points of view - e.g. the same kanban board is used by managers, developers and executives, they all need abstraction level, e.g. for me as a developer I should be able to see the whole picture but should be able to see individual tasks as I am working on tasks, chief executive should be able to see the whole picture, but could not care of individual tasks, etc.

The solution

There are multiple possible solutions - simply allow to create multiproject boards, or there is approach called "portfolio kanban" which is designed specifically for such a cases. Also there is technique of linking projects, but this becomes really messy in case of many project.

For now, we are evaluating portfolio kanban to be implemented.