Backloban is meant to present a Product Backlog web tool together with a simple Kanban project manager. The project was designed to provide a complete nodejs web application together with front-office boilerplate

The general idea is to provide a full scale web development tutorial, including its boilerplate. The project is also all about providing projects a simple project management support through agile concepts of backlog.

• Fork product branch
• install mongodb binaries
• install node if not installed already.
• in mongodb bin folder
  • mongod.exe --dbpath %path to your database resources%
• in project folder, in a console, type
  • npm install // only the first time or after checkouts
  • npm start

That should setup everything, compile then launch the server. Now visit the application on http://localhost:3000 (by default)

The following items are simple descriptions so far. Content are implicit and subject to continuous change :)

• product backlog or backlog : Prioritized features list for a given product.
• backlog item or item : One of the features for the product with a short description.

{
  _id: ObjectId,
  name: text,
  description(?): text,
  doing-backlog: backlog, 
  todo-backlog: backlog,
  done-backlog: backlog
}

{
  _id: ObjectId,
  items:[
    {
        _id: ObjectId,
        name:text,
        detail: text,
        cost: int
    }, ...
  ]
 }

{
    _id:ObjectId,
    itemId:ObjectId,
    tasks:[
      {
        _id:ObjectId,
        name:text,
        detail:text,
        status:(todo| doing| done)
      }, ...
    ]
}

• Setup application content (package.json, Gruntfile.js)
• setup front-office environment
• setup unit/integration test environment
• push general ui mockups
• list products
• create/edit/delete product
• create/edit/delete product server side (REST API) and wire it
• improve slightly ergonomics, cancel edition mode if one clicks outside the product view
• select product (i.e. go to the product detail view when product is selected)
• create minimal backlog item creation form
• list backlog items
• add new item to listing
• delete item from listing
• move items via drag 'n drop
• move selected item via keyup/keydown
• save and read items to server
• show item detail in backlog item listing
• add an item from the backlog to a ongoing work list item
• remove an item from ongoing listing back to backlog
• add nice icons and review design a bit
• create tasks under an ongoing item
• list tasks for a given item
• close/reopen task
• close backlog items
• add tags to backlog item
• list available tags
• filter backlog per existing tags
• add simple timeline product progress chart
• take a nap and think about useful features such as user management, reporting or bug management