Visual WIP a kanban board for TFS

About Visual WIP

Visual WIP is a visualization tool to make your Work In Progress (WIP) visible. The visualization is a card-wall with stickies in different columns.

If work-in-progress limits are set for a column the same amount of kanban’s(slots/placeholders) are added to the column. If more work is added to the column than the set work-in-progress limit the column background will change color.

The main goals of Visual WIP is to:

Visualizer a process work-in-progress by using strong visual signals with a card wall metaphor.
Utilize multi monitors to enable to both show an overview from more that 10 feet’s and show detailed information when closer.
Use a plug-in model to enable customization and support different electronic backing systems. The main focus is to support Team Foundation Server 2010 but SharePoint is also in the roadmap.
Not tied to a specific process as Kanban can be applied to any process. Currently MSF for Agile for Team Foundation Server 2010 is the process that Visual WIP is developed against.

See progress by following the Visual WIP tag or go to the project at VisualWIP.codeplex.com

You can also follow Visual WIP at twitter @VisualWIP

Project status

Since my last status report the following major changes has been made:

You can now save and load the board design.
A new size and positioning that uses drag and drop
Two new column types are added

Rich text – add any kind of rdf based text to your board. Add check lists, definition of done and more
Uri – add a html or xaml based page to the board. Add reports from TFS, twitter pages and more

The xaml based board design is more or less moved to run-time loaded xaml files that you can customize to fit you needs
Support for modifying column setting after they are added is almost done but not activated.
Showing Avatars based on the name of the person assign to a work item
Some GUI changes

Here are some screen shots: