Sometime ago, I posted that my team was using a "Wiki Version of a Kanban board".
We had been using this to track multiple code lines with status on
builds, testing, and critical issues we had written up. Re-reading
that post now, I realized that a Kanban board would be for an individual
release. I had been using another Wiki page that was a Kanban page of
sorts for over 5 years. This allowed me to do *my* job during that
tenure as it was exactly how *I* tracked the release. As I showed more
individuals, it became clear that not everyone thought like I did :-)
I
need a much simpler format (that actually looked like a Kanban board).
With the help of a colleague, we were able to quickly create a new Wiki
page that actually is a Kanban board (pictured below). There is no
one that shows up at our daily stand up that is not able to understand
"Considering", "Doing", and "Done". This is especially true of the
release team -- they are much happier when they see everything in the
"Done" column.
Thanks for sharing, Kanban is really powerful. Have you tried any Kanban web applications ?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment/question. Yes, I have tried a few:
ReplyDelete1) SwiftKanban -- http://www.swiftkanban.com/
2) A much more generic "Card" tool -- Trello -- https://trello.com/
3) Currently using JIRA Agile (fka "GreenHopper") a plugin to JIRA -- https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira