Kanban is a method for managing work in which tasks are shown as cards moving across columns such as To do, Doing and Done, with limits on how many items can be in progress at once.
Why it matters
Making work visible shows bottlenecks immediately. Limiting work in progress keeps the team from starting too much, which speeds up completion of each item. Unlike Scrum, Kanban has no fixed sprints, so work flows continuously. Because there are no fixed iterations, teams measure flow with cycle time, the time from starting a card to finishing it, and adjust limits when that time grows.
Example
A support team's board has columns New, Investigating, Waiting and Done. The Investigating column has a limit of 4. When it is full, nobody pulls a new ticket until one moves on, so the team finishes work instead of juggling many.
Common mistakes
- Skipping work-in-progress limits, which turns the board into a to-do list.
- Never reviewing how long cards sit in each column.
- Adding so many columns that the board becomes hard to read.
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