Step 2: Read the work

How do I read a card and find where to act?

OPS-06
Everyone

WhenWhen a card is yours, or you want to know why it waits

Time1 minute

You needThe Flow board open

You know which task a card waits on, who owns it, and where they act.

Steps

To read one card, open it on the Flow board.A panel opens beside the board with the card's stage, its status, its task key and title. Close closes it.
On a release board, a card is a milestone. To see which task holds it and how much is left, read its "via" line and its count."via" and a task key: the task that keeps the card in this stage. Then "n of m linked tasks open", "all m linked tasks finished" or "no linked tasks".
To see who acts, read the owner.The person, bot or service that owns the card.
To see how long it has stayed, read its time.How long the card has been waiting or working in its stage.
To act, follow Where to act.The page where the owner does the work. no action URL means the link is missing: please tell the card's owner.

Good to know

A time shows only where two real events bound it. Otherwise the card says , never 0.

Why it matters

A card that waits on a person waits until that person acts, so the link to where they act matters most.

Background

Source: Amphora Ops specification and acceptance checks