Kanban

Kanban means a visual card or signboard. Kanban is an Agile Methodology which emphasizes visualizing all the steps in the workflow. The progress of a project is tracked on a board that is known as the Kanban Board. The Kanban Board has status lanes which correspond to the different stages in the lifecycle of a project. As the project progresses, the work items of the project move from one lane to another.

Advantages of implementing Kanban include:

Improved quality of work.
Faster turnaround of work.
Identification and elimination of bottlenecks.
Reduction of time, a task spends in queues.
Improved teamwork.
Reduction in wasted effort.

The basic principles of Kanban are:

Visualize the workflow by allowing everyone to view the work in progress.
Reduce the number of work in progress items.

This section contains the following topics:

How to Manage Work Using Kanban Board