Hands-on Kanban

Some techniques, samples and tooling for a
digital kanban board

Transcript

2. Agenda •Why digital boards at all? •Review: Pomodoro Technique & Kanban •Kanban-Board setups •KanbanFlow Features
3. Why digital boards at all? Nothing beats face-to-face • Effectiveness of meetings • Nonverbal communication • A personal touch → Digital only 2nd best solution
4. Why digital boards at all? A Conference Call in Real Life - YouTube
5. Why digital boards at all? Why Face-to-Face Communication Won't Disappear
6. Why digital boards at all? If you can, always prefer physical boards •easy to setup •extremely visual, transparent & accessible •improves of ownership & accountability
7. Why digital boards at all? Use digital if •colocation is impossible •reporting “eats up” your time •archiving & maintaining history is important •board mobility is top requirement
10. Kanban: Only two hard rules 1. 2. • • • •
11. Kanban board samples • To-do → Do today → In progress → Done (default) • Ready → Next → Doing → Feedback → [Done,Cancel] • Waiting → Today → Done • To-do → Doing → Done • Todo → Plan → Develop → Test → Deploy → Done ⇒ Definition of Done? You start & finish a task!
12. Free features •Board settings •Share boards •Up to 10 custom colored categories •Recurring tasks •Pomodoro timer & flow points
13. Premium features •Email to board column •Swimlanes •Statistics & Reporting •Dashboard
14. Summary •Techniques • pomodoro • personal “custom” kanban •Tooling with KanbanFlow • board everywhere/everytime • multiple (shared) boards • tasks, subtasks, recurring tasks
15. Some References • • •