Questions tagged [kanban-board]
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How do I only track one subteam's tasks on a Kanban Board?
I have a very real scenario ... right now. I have a lot of requirements in the queue and a dozen teams, each representing a different subsystem of the overall complex product, and any combo of these ...
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How to apply Kanban when team members support product lifecycle end to end?
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My team is an outgrowth of the "low code, no code" movement, originally utilizing visualization tools and lightweight ETL tools for data analytics; we're progressed to some more ...
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Who moves the Kanban cards
Perhaps this question is trivial, but I haven't seen an answer. I built a Kanban board tool (I know, they already exist) and my idea was that people would begin a stage of the work by clicking the ...
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Kanban how to deal with blockers and priorities
I am using kanban methodology with the board in the below state.
TO DO
DOING
BLOCKERS
DONE
Task4
Task3
Task2
Task1
Task5
Once Task2 is unblocked:
Should I create another column 'UNBLOCKED' so once ...
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Flexible Kanban with JIRA
I'm trying to use my company's JIRA installation with Kanban. I would like to customize the columns shown on the board. However, my columns do not align neatly with the company defined workflow. For ...
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estimating time for a step that has batch process in project management
Im trying to estimate cycle time of a process. For example if I am making widgets where each widget type has different process times. However in one of the steps in the process, it is a batch process ...
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How should I account for automated steps in Kanban board?
This is a small question to understand Kanban better. Right now, I am managing a Scrum team and decided to learn about Kanban a bit more to understand differences and (if needed) to choose the better ...
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How to indicate with a single card on a kanban board the progress of an item through parallel stages?
How to reconcile two seemingly conflicting ideas for setting up a workflow: a linear series of steps vs. parallelization of steps?
On the one hand, we have a reasonably typical Kanban board that ...
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How to break down work in Kanban?
In Kanban, how can we break down work? Lets say we have a task of setting up a new server. To do so it requires some investigation, a purchase, physical mounting, configuring the software etc.
When ...
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Kanban board is perfect for feature cards but falls short on subtask cards. How to manage subtasks (assigned to individual workers) on a Kanban board?
We are a small team building webapps for multiple clients in parallel.
We have not been doing full-featured Scrum, but we have "sprints" and per-project boards with the following columns:
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How to size Kanban cards
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When creating Kanban cards, I don't know how I should size them, i.e. if I have one task that I estimate to take a week and one task that should take only half a day, should they both just get ...
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How to visualise backlog items which must be pushed to done every day
Has anyone found a good method that doesn’t feel lame about representing activities that need to be completed every day on a personal or team kanban board.
For instance, if I wanted to read every day ...
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Kanban Buffers and Queues
Reading about Kanban, I often encounter things like buffers and queues being mentioned. But I don't understand the difference. For example:
A, B and C are queues or buffers? What's their role? What ...
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Why do Kanban Boards only contain one deployment?
I'm tasked with customizing the ticket statuses and kanban board for our software development project.
I realized that Microsoft Kanban Boards and actually all other kanban boards I could find only ...
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How much project management is a software developer supposed to do?
To not be too broad to begin with, the direct question would be:
Is it expected that a developer should continuously remind project
manages of a feature not implemented because he lacks resources ...
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MsProject - Updating board status based on %achieved
I would like to automatically update the 'board status' column based on the % achieved.
Is this possible?
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What should a Kanban board visualize?
Kanban prescribes to visualize work and the process it goes through. But what exactly should be visualized? (This is a general question about Kanban board design.)
For example, should we visualize:
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In Jira Kanban, do we use sub-tasks?
I'm wondering if we should use sub-tasks in Kanban board? Or any sub-task should be repsresented with a column in the Kanban board?
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What do columns mean - workflow or team members - in Kanban?
Let's say we have a team consisting of a developer and a tester. And we have a Kanban board consisting of "Development(WIP=1)", "Testing(WIP=1)", "Done" columns.
When the developer has implemented a ...
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Separating Jira Kanban board issues into categories?
So im going to be using Jira for a client specifically for the Kanban board. I want to keep it as simple as possible (Simple Card Detail/Small amount of swimlanes/etc...)
My one question is: Outside ...
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Best Way to Manage Different Types of Work in one Board?
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My team consists of software developers and UX designers. Their workflow is different--UX has different steps than a pure development task has. What's the best way to manage this on one Kanban ...
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How to handle large backlog
Recently I am asked to inspect the Kanban system our company is following and I am having some difficulties to fix it. I am working in a startup company and in software department there are 5 ...
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How to create JIRA Kanban based on ticket/card reporter?
I want to create another Kanban board in my project where the columns are people names (we have 4 analysts in the team) and in the column shows all the cards created (reported) by each analyst, so we ...
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Is it proper for a kanban board (process) to involve several teams or just one?
Your org goes agile.
You decide to make every process explicit. My understanding is that each process is a kanban board. One organization will have many processes and thus have many boards with ...
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Does a user story need to be small and why, when using Kanban
User Stories are generally written using INVEST method; the E meaning easier estimation which does not apply to Kanban and S meaning small enough to fit into iteration which also does not apply to ...
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How long will it take for epics and stories to exit our Kanban system
We have only just recently starting using Kanban, so we have little or no predictability data about how long epics and stories take to move through our system.
How do we give the business an idea of ...
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In our Kanban system how do we stop epics spawning endless stories
We have designed our system with the follow steps:
Backlog (epics)
Ready for discovery (epics)
In discovery (epics)
Ready to break into stories / 3 amigos (epics->stories)
Ready for development (...
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How to manage development tasks and bugs/issues in a small fully-remote development team?
How to manage development tasks and bugs/issues in a small fully-remote development team?
I've just hired two developers so I need to put a system in place for managing development tasks, reporting ...
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Issues with multiple unrelated projects on the same kanban backlog
Recently we've started an experiment that everyone on the team (six devs) pull the top item off the backlog regardless of what it is. For context we maintain eight existing services that compose of ...
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What is the ongoing value of the Kanban board to the developers as opposed to management
I want to understand what others believe is the ongoing value of a Kanban board to the development team
I got into an argument recently at my small company because
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In Kanban, when do you pull a card into your PM analysis column?
Our kanban board has a familiar form: Backlog > analysis > QA/Dev Review > Ready to go > in Dev ... etc.
A topic of discussion found within the team (and across the company) is when should stories ...
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What magnets for a glass whiteboard? [closed]
What design and strength of magnets are best for a glass whiteboard, used to hold our story cards for daily stand-ups?
We have a glass whiteboard, and many magnets fail to stick through the glass, or ...
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Kanban: How can I handle column limits when some members work at night?
On my team, we're starting to work with kanban and have column limits applied. One of our members will work frequently work in the evenings or at night and is expressing that the column limits prevent ...
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Which columns exist on your task board?
Currently, we’re implementing new processes at our company essentially from scratch, but there are a lot of opinions on which columns should be on the task board. As the one responsible for this ...
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What is the proper way to add/represent development tasks (like refacturing) to a sprint?
We coded something which works but is quite terrible. We have planned the refactoring of that piece of code in this sprint but since it doesn't really fit in a user story, how do we add or represent ...
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How do you combine Waterfall with Kanban?
Our team has a wide variety of work item types. Some of the work we do is related to projects, some is operational, some we generate internally ourselves.
In order to be reactive to the needs of the ...
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At what Work Item level does the Product Owner prioritize in TFS?
This question could be similar to At what level should the Product Owner prioritize work?. However, I ask questions based on specific use cases that is not addressed there.
Our team is reviewing our ...
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Different Releases in the same Jira Kanban board?
We are a development team and we use a Kanban board (Jira) with different swimlines.
We have some tasks who are code related and other task who are not code related like investigations, query, ...
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Different workflows on one kanban board
From reading discussions here the general consensus seems to be that you should have a ratio of one kanban board for one team.
How do you model multiple workflows in the team on one board?
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One Kaban or five Kanbans? My manager would like to implement Kanban to get better visibility on what his five teams do
He needs to do reporting to his higher-ups both on an organizational level and team level (one GIS org consisting of five teams w/ different GIS specialties).
He'd prefer to do one Kanban board for ...
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How can I track time spent by assignees on each ticket in JIRA?
I want to track time spent by each agent on each task on a JIRA Kanban board. If an agent was assigned a task and he assigns it back to me, I want to track the time he spent assigned to the ticket. Is ...
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Team using Waiting for Release column on their kanban board
My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then 'do a release' as appose to releasing each ticket. i.e. they move tickets through the workflow and then put ...
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How to handle a Kanban team that wants to move jira tickets back?
My team is not interested in following the principle of Jira tickets only flow forward on the board and rework happens in whatever column the problem was found.
I don’t share this method with the ...
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Container story for repeated work
My QA (not only QA) is performing the same work on undefined schedule. For example: a full regression test is being done with every mobile app release. This work involves not only automation test, but ...
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Keep User Assignment for Tasks in Done Columns?
I do understand that the concept of the Work In Progress (WIP) of a column counts for both, the "in progress" and the "done"-subcolumn to keep the flow stable and force the team to identify and solve ...
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Tracking how much time particular task spends in a lane - Kanboard
In Kanboard (https://kanboard.net/) I can display average time all tasks spent in particular column:
However, I need information on how much time particular task spent in each lane.
How can I do ...
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Handling New Issues in the backlog
We are a small team mostly focused on medium to large scale websites. I am going to merge all issues for all of our projects into one backlog using Kanban with JIRA. The idea being that no one gets ...
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Swimlane, category or new project for grouping dependent projects in Kanboard
We have just recently started to use Kanboard, but still not sure how to apply our projects in the Kanboard system. We have a couple of major software projects contains sub-projects such as Delphi ...
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Kaban board lacks of hierarchical view - how to overcome it
Very often you may want to breakdown a project into big User Story and from there you create small tasks. Depending on how your company/team works, you may have many-level hierarchy of tasks. Looking ...
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How to use a physical Kanban board?
Some companies have real, physical Kanban boards (each board for each project). In daily meeting the team would gather in front of Kanban board and perform the meeting.
1) What values does a ...
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