Board-Based Collaborative Work Management Tools (BBTs), such as Trello, Planner, and Asana, are a form of cooperative information system that are widely used to support collaborative process coordination, task management, and knowledge sharing. However, designing effective boards can be challenging, particularly for non-technical users. Prior research has addressed this by identifying structural design patterns and a metamodel for board design, but the focus has primarily been on card movement as the primary action shaping board usage. This paper extends that work by analyzing the role that card and list creation and termination plays in real-world BBTs. Based on this analysis, we contribute (1) a set of creation and termination patterns reflecting common usage behaviors, and (2) an extension to the existing metamodel that accounts for these actions. These contributions support the design of more effective and adaptable boards and provide a richer understanding of how boards are actually used in practice.

The .xlsx includes one row for each of the 91 Trello templates analyzed. The columns indicate the presence or absence of each of the eight structural design patterns identified in a previous work. In addition, we analyze the appearance of each of the three behavioral patterns introduced in this study. Finally, we examine the co-occurrence of structural and behavioral patterns within the same template.