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Tasked with improving Tasks

The final phase of our plan is focused on visual cleanup and better error handling. Before I focused on the visual cleanup I wanted to fill in some of the gaps that exist in our plan. I’m starting with Tasks. There are several missing features that I wanted to add to Tasks to make them more useful. This post includes those changes.

Rounding out Tasks

At this time Tasks only have a title, description, and their position in the column. This really is not enough for a serious Kanban application. I asked Claude to add the following fields:

Adding Drag and Drop

We asked Claude to finish phase six which was adding drag and drop functionality to the board. Claude did this quickly but when I tested it I found that it was more complex that expected. Claude got a few things wrong. First of all let’s watch the video of phase six.

Always test everything

At the end of the video it seems like everything was okay. One might be tempted to commit the code and move on. I think a very important step is to test everything that AI creates. Occasionally AI will make a mistake and it is important to catch it right away while it still has the entire context available.

Doing a little cleanup

This post is a cleanup post. After Part 8 I spent some time testing all aspects of the application and decided to make a few small changes beofre moving to the next phase. I noticed that flash messages (the message that shows in the upper right corner) stays there until I dismiss it. I think it becomes anoying to have to do that repeatedly when adding multiple tasks so I decide to make it automatically fade away after 5 seconds. I could ask Claude to do this but thought it was a very easy task so I set about to do it myself. Here is what I came up with.

Adding tasks

Before getting started adding tasks to our Kanban Board I decided to do a little maintenance. A couple of the dependencies had updates so I decided to go ahead and update the project. Also, the latest version of Elixir finally reached 1.19.2. To me that signals that the 1.19 versions are stable enough to update so I did. I’ll have a separate blog post of what I had to do to update the application as well as update my deployment scripts and Dockerfile.

I have made my living as an Agile coach since 2003. I have worked as a coach for clients around the world, taught many courses in various topics, and spoken at too many conferences to count. I have dedicated more than a third of my life to these concepts and truly believe they have been the best way to deliver software.

Agile has gone through many changes over my career. A few of the major ones that I feel have had the most impact are the introduction of Lean Startup, practices like BDD and Acceptance Test Driven Development, and my favourite which is Continuous Delivery. Most of these changes have come from within the Agile community and have pushed us forward in our understanding of how to deliver more value quicker. I have stayed current and in some cases have been on the forefront for many of these changes.