What is a lane on a fenbs board?
A lane is a column on the board, and it says where a task is: To Do, Next Up, In Progress or Completed. There are four, and they do not change.
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A lane is where a task is. fenbs has four, fixed: To Do, Next Up, In Progress, Completed. A task is in exactly one lane, and moving it between lanes is the main thing anyone does on the board — so it is its own permission, separate from editing what the task says. A site crew can move work along a spec they must not rewrite.
What each lane means
- To Do: everything you have written down and not committed to. This is the backlog.
- Next Up: what you have decided to do next. Keeping this lane short is the discipline that makes the board useful.
- In Progress: what is being worked on now, by a person or an assistant.
- Completed: finished. A task can also be closed without being built — as a duplicate, or won’t fix — and the board’s numbers say so.
Why colour is never status
On a fenbs board the colour of a task is its kind — Feature, Enhancement, Bug — and never its lane or urgency. A board full of red reads as “a lot of bugs” and never as “a lot of panic”. The lane carries status; nothing else does.