Kanban board
A kanban board is one of the tools which can be used to implement the kanban method in a company in order to support production processes.
Kanban boards are perceived as a variation on traditional kanban cards. Instead of the signal cards that represent demand or capacity, the board utilizes magnets, plastic chips, colored washers or sticky notes to represent work items.[1] Each of these objects represents item in a production process and it moves around the board. Its movement corresponds with a manufacturing process.[2] The board is usually divided into three sections: "awaiting production", "work in progress" and "completed work in progress". Employees move cards to the section on the board that coincides with the receptacle it represents.[3]
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Application [edit]
Kanban can be used to organize many areas of life. There are many possible kanban board designs. The simplest kanban board consist of three columns: "to do", "in progress" and "done".[4]
- Kanban board for software development team
The most popular example of kanban board for 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.[5]
Principles [edit]
- visualize workflow
- limit work-in-progress[8]
- pull work from column to column
- monitor, adapt, improve [9]
Online kanban board [edit]
Though the original implementation of kanban boards was in physical form, many teams, especially those working from different places, choose to use digital boards hosted online.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Kanban Guide: Demand Scheduling for Lean Manufacturing, Compiled by Nilesh R Arora. Add ValueConsulting Inc., India 2001, p. 11.
- ^ J. M. GrossKenneth, R. McInnis: Kanban Made Simple—Demystifying and Applying Toyota's Legendary ManufacturingProcess. Amacom, USA 2003, p. 50. ISBN 0-8144-0763-3
- ^ Kanban Guide: Demand Scheduling for Lean Manufacturing, Compiled by Nilesh R Arora. Add ValueConsulting Inc., India 2001, p. 11
- ^ H. Kniberg, M. Skarin: Kanban and Scrum making the most of both. C4Media, Publisher of InfoQ.com, USA 2010, p. 31.
- ^ codeweavers. "Agile Design: Kanban with our Web Designers - Design, Process Updates | Codeweavers Blog | Staffordshire Software Development House". Codeweavers.net. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ J. Dager: Why you should use Kanban in Marketing?,http://business901.com/blog1/why-you-should-use-kanban-in-marketing/
- ^ "Kanban for Short Intense Projects: How We Used Kanban to Visualize Our Hiring Process Workflow and Make Our Lives Easier". Personal Kanban. 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ "Building Your First". Personal Kanban. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ J. Boeg, Priming Kanban,
