Team workload board · Python & Flask
Marauder is a traffic-light board for teams. Everyone marks how loaded they are for the current two weeks, so whoever hands out work can see who has capacity and who needs relief.
Live demo
Pick a name at the top, then click that person's cells to change their status. The summary above the board counts the current period.
Four statuses
Each status has its own shape as well as its own colour, so the board still reads on a grey printout or for someone who can't tell red from green.
Things are going well and there is room in the schedule. Come to me if you need support.
under 70 %Busy, but under control. Talk to me before assigning anything new.
70–85 %Feeling the pressure and prioritising hard. I will probably need to hand something off soon.
85–100 %At the limit or blocked. Someone needs to step in now and help redistribute the work.
over 100 %Load ranges are the rule of thumb from the built-in help. Regular overtime or deadlines at risk always count as red.
How it works
A Flask server, two HTML pages and a CSV file. Nothing to install on the clients; colleagues open the address in a browser.
Each column is a pair of calendar weeks. The current pair is marked and one future pair is shown by default. When a new period starts, everyone carries over their last status until they change it.
Choose your name, then click a cell to move through Green, Yellow, Orange and Red. Changes are saved at once, and other open boards pick them up within 30 seconds.
Behind a password at /admin: the language, whether past weeks can still be edited and how far back, how many future periods to show, and the password itself.
People and statuses live in users.csv. The server adds a column for each new week and keeps the most recent 16, so the file never grows without limit.
30 questions and answers from ampel_faq.csv, searchable from the board. For example: which colour to choose with three large projects, or when working part-time. Written in German.
The interface switches between German, English, French and Italian from the admin page. Names, groups and help texts stay as entered.
Run it
Needs Python 3.7 or newer. The demo on this page runs without a server; the real board needs one so the team shares the same data.
$ git clone https://github.com/omidabduli/Marauder.git
$ cd Marauder
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python server.pyhttp://localhost:5005. Colleagues on the same network use the address the server prints at start-up.RUN_MARAUDER.command or RUN_MARAUDER.bat instead. Both set up a virtual environment first.admin. Change it on the admin page before the team uses the board.