Hello all, please I want to make Kanban boards and distribute to colleagues, what material can I use?

Osahon Idehen Lead Analyst, Business Process| NNPC Corporate Strategy and Sustainability Abuja, Fct, Nigeria

My organization has not fully appreciated the use of Kanban boards and its value. I want to start by making simple versions and giving colleagues to show its benefits, my challenge is material can I use?

Posted: Jun 16, 2022 10:42 PM

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Craeg Strong CTO| Savant Financial Technologies Inc New York, Ny, United States

Greetings! Kanban coach here. For folks just getting started with Kanban, I usually recommend either Trello or KanbanZone. For orgs that require complex coordination and forecasting, I recommend Kanbanize. I spend a ton of time working with electronic tools, because since Covid, it is not realistic to expect teams to all be in the office every day in front of a whiteboard (I wish!). It is important to understand the philosophy of tools, where they are coming from. Jira is trying to facilitate software teams and DevOps. You can use Jira to coordinate teams and visualize strategy if you add a bunch of expensive plugins. KanbanZone and Kanbanize are designed from the ground up to manage workflows at all levels including value stream coordination and strategy. hope this helps.

Posted: Mar 16, 2023 3:58 PM

Craeg Strong CTO| Savant Financial Technologies Inc New York, Ny, United States

While it is certainly possible to start with a simple set of "todo-doing-done" columns, we can get a lot more value out of our tools by expanding that just a tad. Pretty much every tool out there will measure how long work tends to stay in a given column. "If we hired one more person, should we hire a developer or UX designer (or rating analyst vs underwriter, etc.)?" If you have a separate design and develop column (or rating vs underwriting) you will get this insight pretty much for free.

Posted: Mar 16, 2023 4:04 PM

Mohamed Refaei United Arab Emirates

Jun 17, 2022 8:18 AM

Replying to Sergio Luis Conte

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The problem I found is the value about using Kanban boards is inside the Kanban method/phylosofy itself. For example, if you use Kanban boards without specifying WIP limits (work in progress) the Kanban board is unusefull. But here comes the key point: is the company able to accept the impact when using WIP limits? I will assure that your colleagues will happy on using it. Unfortunatelly as other things lot of people use this type of things like buzzwords instead of reading the foundations which are outside there and I fully recommend to read and understand it.

Nicely put, Sergio. Your words caught my eye when I was reading the thread. Most people follow trends without learning indeed!

Posted: Mar 17, 2023 5:23 AM (Updated by author: Mar 17, 2023 5:23 AM)

Victoria Lincoln Organisational Project Manager| Herrmann Honiton, Devon, United Kingdom

I'm currently introducing to one particular team for one particular project, in the hope a slow adoption will show others how valuable a tool it is. We personally use Asana at my company so I have set up a board view rather than list and have set up workflows and WIP limits etc. It will take some training and some guidance but I am hoping it will work.

Another option is to use Miro, if you're a virtual team this is a great virtual version of a whiteboard for a simple version!

Posted: Mar 17, 2023 5:58 AM

Adalyd Oliveras Project Management Consultant and Mentor | Bank United Sunrise, Fl, United States

For me, the whiteboard with the sticky notes worked at the beginning. Then explanation the framework, I introduced other tools. Good luck in this journey.

Posted: Apr 10, 2023 9:51 PM

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Hello all, please I want to make Kanban boards and distribute to colleagues, what material can I use?

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