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A kanban board is one of the tools that can be used to implement kanban to manage work at a personal or organizational level.
Kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. Cards are moved from left to right to show progress and to help coordinate teams performing the work. A kanban board may be divided into horizontal "swimlanes" representing different kinds of work or different teams performing the work.
Kanban boards can be used in knowledge work or for manufacturing processes.
Simple boards have columns for "waiting", "in progress", and "completed" or "to-do", "doing", and "done". Complex kanban boards can be created that subdivide "in progress" work into multiple columns to visualise the flow of work across a whole value stream map.
Kanban can be used to organize many areas of an organization and can be designed accordingly. The simplest kanban board consists of three columns: "to-do", "doing" and "done", though some additional detail such as
A kanban board is one of the tools that can be used to implement kanban to manage work at a personal or organizational level.
Kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. Cards are moved from left to right to show progress and to help coordinate teams performing the work. A kanban board may be divided into horizontal "swimlanes" representing different kinds of work or different teams performing the work.
Kanban boards can be used in knowledge work or for manufacturing processes.
Simple boards have columns for "waiting", "in progress", and "completed" or "to-do", "doing", and "done". Complex kanban boards can be created that subdivide "in progress" work into multiple columns to visualise the flow of work across a whole value stream map.
Applications
Kanban can be used to organize many areas of an organization and can be designed accordingly. The simplest kanban board consists of three columns: "to-do", "doing" and "done", though some additional detail such as WiP
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limits are needed to fully support the Kanban Method. Business functions that use kanban boards include:
* Kanban board for software development
Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...
team. A popular example of a kanban board for agile
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* Agile, an entity that possesses agility
Project management
* Agile software development, a development method
* Agile construction, iterative and incremental construction method
* Agile learning, the application of incremen ...
or lean software development consists of: Backlog, Ready, Coding, Testing, Approval, and Done columns. It is also a common practice to name columns in a different way, for example: Next, In Development, Done, Customer Acceptance, Live.
* Kanban for marketing teams
* Kanban for HR teams
* Personal task management or "personal kanban"Willeke, Marian HH. "Agile in Academics: Applying Agile to Instructional Design." Agile Conference (AGILE), 2011. IEEE, 2011.
*Kanban for accounting teams. Usually consists of columns: new items, ready for distribution, in progress, and completed.
Notable tools
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, with boards
* Azure DevOps Server, an integrated ALM-platform for managing work in and across multiple teams.
* CA Technologies Rally, provides teams with the option of managing pull-based, lean software development projects.
* Evernote.
* Jira, provides kanban boards.
* Kanboard
Kanboard is a project management open source software application that uses a Kanban board to implement the Kanban process management system. Features include a minimal drag-and-drop web user interface, a command line interface and ability to ...
, open source kKanban-based project management software
* Microsoft Planner, a planning application available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform.
* Monday.com, a cloud-based platform that allows users to create their own applications and work management software.
* Notion, a project management and database application includes kanban board views.
* Odoo, an open-source ERP and CRM, provides kanban boards for most apps.
* Pivotal Tracker provides kanban boards
* Projektron BCS, project management tool, provides kanban boards for tickets and tasks
* ServiceNow platform, offers kanban style visual task boards.
* Trello, cards-based project management.
* Tuleap, agile open source tool for development teams: customize board columns, set WIP (Work In Progress), connect board with Issue Trackers, Git, Documents
* Twproject (formerly Teamwork), project and groupware management tool.
* Unicom Focal Point, a portfolio management and product management tool.
* Wrike, An agile collaborative work management
See also
* Kanban (development) * Scrum * Continuous-flow manufacturing * Getting Things Done * Project management * Task management * Visual controlReferences
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