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Features

How Schedol works, from the first request to sign-off. Every screen below is the real app.

Plan

Shape work before anyone starts it, and put it on the calendar.

Ideas and templates

Park ideas as drafts, then promote them to a board when they are ready.

Drafts are light backlog items that live on the project, outside any board. A draft has a title, priority, owners, tags and comments, so an idea can be shaped and discussed before it becomes work. Templates save the shape of a card your team makes again and again.

How it works

  1. Add a draft from the project's Drafts page and file it in a bucket, such as Main or Next release.
  2. Shape it: set a priority, owners and tags, and talk it through in comments.
  3. Promote it when it is ready. It becomes a real card in the board's To do column.
  4. For repeat work, save a card template with its title, description, priority, estimate, owners, tags and sub-tasks, then start new cards from it.

Good to know

  • Promotion is one way. A card never turns back into a draft; archive or trash it instead.
  • A promoted card always lands in To do, so it enters the board through every rule.
  • A board column can mirror a bucket, so dragging a draft onto the board promotes it.
  • Duplicating a card copies its title, description and sub-tasks, with the sub-tasks unchecked.

Dates and sprints

Every due date is checked against its window, and sprints run on the calendar.

Projects and boards have a start and an end date, and every card's due date must fall inside them. A due date can carry a time of day when it matters. Sprint boards run in fixed-length sprints that start and close on their dates.

How it works

  1. Give the project and each board a date window. A due date outside it is refused, with the window named.
  2. On a sprint board, plan the next sprint from the Backlog. Day one of a sprint is planning day.
  3. The sprint starts on its start date and closes on its end date. Nobody has to press Start or Complete.
  4. At the end of day one the commitment is frozen, so the burndown and velocity measure against what was promised.
  5. Unfinished cards carry over to the next sprint on their own.

Good to know

  • Sprint length is a board rule: the sprints on a board share one length.
  • A sprint can have a points capacity. Adding work past it is refused.
  • Adding work to a running sprint asks for a reason, so scope changes are on record.
  • Days off in the workspace's working week don't count toward days left and don't move the burndown.
  • When a board passes its end date, you decide: extend the date or close the board.
  • Today means your workspace's today, set by its time zone.

Ready to try it with your team?