A project-scoped Kanban board with drag & drop, WIP limits, swimlanes, sprint filtering on top of Redmine versions and a dedicated backlog for sprint planning.
Native HTML5, no external JavaScript library. A status change is recorded as a regular Redmine journal entry.
Configurable per column. A visual warning as soon as the limit is exceeded – without blocking anyone.
Group the board horizontally by assignee, tracker, priority, target version or category. Switch at any time.
Any saved Redmine query feeds the board. Complex filters without a query language of its own.
Every open Redmine target version is a sprint. The filter scopes the board to a single sprint; a status strip shows progress and time remaining – green, amber or red.
A dedicated backlog page lists every issue without a sprint. Assign each one to an open sprint from a dropdown in its row – no need to open issues one by one.
With assignee swimlanes, every project member gets a lane, plus a backlog lane on top. Dragging a card assigns it – with all workflow checks intact.
Status transitions respect the workflows and roles defined in Redmine. No way around your governance.
Viewing the board, editing issues on it and managing its settings are three separate permissions.
cd /path/to/redmine
unzip at_kanbanboard-1.7.0.zip -d plugins/
bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=at_kanbanboard RAILS_ENV=production
# restart Redmine
Enable the Kanban Board module in the project settings, grant roles the appropriate permissions, done.
Redmine itself is GPLv2 – every plugin that loads into Redmine at runtime must be as well. You get the full source, no activation servers and no hidden telemetry.
The price buys verified releases, twelve months of updates and direct support from the development team – not access to the code.