Another Kanban Board Example

As I have mentioned previously we have many teams using a Kanban System.

Here is an example of a Kanban board from one of our product teams. Note that they use the following:

• A star above each lane where a date stamp is required that will be used to produce metrics (lead time & cycle time) to help the team improve. This team literally use a stamp to record the date on the card, gives a nice satisfying thump each time you stamp a card.
• A No Entry Cross sign to limit work in progress. For example you can only fit 2 cards in the Ready for Review stage so there is no need to write the number 2 above that stage.
• A Feature (MMF) input queue containing the next MMF ready to pull.
• A Feature (MMF) currently in progress state. Our other teams are using swimlanes for this but this is quite a small team so will typically only have 1 MMF in progress at any one time.
• White cards to denote packaged releases, containing release number and other release info, with the related cards pinned behind.
• Avatars depicting who is working on what item.

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