Kanban board

{{Short description|Display of work at stages in a process}} [[File:Abstract Kanban Board.svg|upright=1.3|thumb|A kanban board]] A '''kanban board''' is one of the tools that can be used to implement the [[Kanban (development)|kanban]] work management system, 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 for [[knowledge work]] or manufacturing processes.J. M. Gross, Kenneth R. McInnis: Kanban Made Simple—Demystifying and Applying Toyota's Legendary Manufacturing Process. Amacom, USA 2003, p. 50. {{ISBN|0-8144-0763-3}}

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 mapping|value stream map]].

According to the [[Project Management Institute]], a '''kanban board''' is a "visualization tool that shows work in progress to help identify bottlenecks and overcommitments, thereby allowing the team to optimize the workflow."{{sfn|Project Management Institute|2021|loc=§Glossary Section 3. Definitions}}

==Applications== {{third-party|section|date=February 2020}} [[File:Sample Kanban Board.png|thumb|right|A kanban board in [[software development]]]] 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",H. Kniberg, M. Skarin: Kanban and Scrum making the most of both. C4Media, Publisher of InfoQ.com, USA 2010, p. 31. though some additional detail such as [[Work in process|WiP]] limits is needed to fully support the Kanban Method.{{Cite book|url=http://leankanban.com/guide|title=Essential Kanban Condensed|last1=Anderson|first1=David J.|last2=Carmichael|first2=Andy|publisher=Lean Kanban University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-9845214-2-5|location=Seattle, WA|archive-date=2020-03-11|access-date=2020-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311063418/https://leankanban.com/guide/|url-status=dead}} Business functions that use kanban boards include:

• Kanban board for the [[software development]] team. A popular example of a kanban board for [[Agile software development|agile]] 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.{{cite web|author=codeweavers |url=http://codeweavers.net/agile-design-kanban-with-our-web-designers/ |title=Agile Design: Kanban with our Web Designers – Design, Process Updates | Codeweavers Blog | Staffordshire Software Development House |publisher=Codeweavers.net |access-date=2012-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101023534/http://codeweavers.net/agile-design-kanban-with-our-web-designers/ |archive-date=1 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}
• Kanban for marketing teamsJ. Dager. "Why you should use Kanban in Marketing", http://business901.com/blog1/why-you-should-use-kanban-in-marketing/
• Kanban for HR teams{{cite web |url=http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/designpatterns/kanban-for-short-intense-projects-how-we-used-kanban-to-visualize-our-hiring-process-workflow-and-make-our-lives-easier/ |title=Kanban for Short Intense Projects: How We Used Kanban to Visualize Our Hiring Process Workflow and Make Our Lives Easier |publisher=Personal Kanban |date=2011-01-19 |access-date=2012-08-17 |archive-date=2012-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712215437/http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/designpatterns/kanban-for-short-intense-projects-how-we-used-kanban-to-visualize-our-hiring-process-workflow-and-make-our-lives-easier/ |url-status=dead }}
• Personal task management or "personal kanban"Benson, Jim, and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life. Modus Cooperandi Press, 2011.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==

A growing number of personal and project management applications incorporate kanban boards into their software, including:

• [[Airtable]], enables users to store, organize, collaborate on, and automate structured data.
• [[Asana (software)|Asana]], with boards.
• [[Azure DevOps Server]], an integrated [[Application lifecycle management|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.
• [[ClickUp]], a cloud-based personal and project management application.
• [[Evernote]].
• [[Github]] Projects
• [[Jira (software)|Jira]], provides kanban boards.
• [[Kanboard]], open source kanban-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 (productivity 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.
• [[OpenProject]], a web-based open source project management system with the ability to create action boards to implement Kanban boards.
• [[Pivotal Labs|Pivotal Tracker]] provides kanban boards.
• [[Planka]] a self hosted kanban style project tracking tool.
• [[Projektron BCS]], a project management tool, provides kanban boards for tickets and tasks.
• [[ServiceNow]] platform, offers kanban style visual task boards.
• [[Trello]], cards-based project management.
• [[Tuleap (project management)|Tuleap]], agile open source tool for development teams: customize board columns, set WIP (Work In Progress), connect the 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 (software)|Wrike]], An agile collaborative work management.
• [[Workflowy]], A web-based outliner.
• [[Redmine]] (with plugins) and its spinoff projects [[Easy Redmine]] and [[OpenProject]]

== See also ==

• [[Kanban (development)]]
• [[Scrum (software development)|Scrum]]
• [[Continuous-flow manufacturing]]
• [[Getting Things Done]]
• [[Project management]]
• [[Task management]]
• [[Visual control]]

== Citations == {{Reflist}}

== References == *{{Cite book|last=Project Management Institute|title=A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide)|date=2021|others=Project Management Institute|isbn=978-1-62825-664-2 |edition=7th|location=Newtown Square, PA}}

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