Kanban

What is Kanban

Kanban helps visualize your work, limit work-in-progress(WIP) and quickly move work from "Doing" to "Done." Kanban is great for teams that have lots of incoming requests that vary in priority and size. Whereas scrum processes require high control over what is in scope, kanban let’s you go with the flow.

6 Practices of Kanban

1. Visualize the workflow (with cards and boards)
2. Limit work-in-progress: Setting maximum items per stage ensures that a card is only “pulled” into the next step when there is available capacity.
3. Manage Flow
4. Make process policies explicit
5. Feedback Loop
6. Improve Collaboratively (using models and scientific method)

How it works

Work items—represented by cards— are organized on a kanban board where they flow from one stage of the workflow(column) to the next.

In kanban, updates are released whenever they are ready, without a regular schedule or predetermined due dates

The whole team owns the kanban board. Some teams enlist an agile coach but, unlike scrum, there is no single “kanban master” who keeps everything running smoothly. It’s the collective responsibility of the entire team to collaborate on and deliver the tasks on the board.

Work In Progress(WIP) limits: A WIP limit caps the number of cards that can be in any one column at one time. When you reach your WIP limit, a tool like Jira Software caps that column and the team swarms on those items to move them forward.

Some details on how to set up Kanban with Trello: https://blog.trello.com/kanban-data-nave