David Anderson established that Kanban boards can be broken down into five components:
Visual Signals – these visual signals help teammates and stakeholders quickly.
Work In Progress (WIP) Limits - are the maximum number of cards
Commitment Point this is the moment when an idea is picked up by the team
Delivery Point - end of a Kanban team’s workflow. product or service is in the hands of the customer. The elapsed time between the two is the called Lead Time.
Physical Boards - the simplest Kanban boards
Digital Boards - allow teams that do not share a physical office space to use kanban boards remotely and asynchronously.
Trello - an online corkboard and use it to organize “cards” into lists.
· Trello provides:
Ø Accountability
Ø Sanity
Ø Visualization
Ø Organization
Ø Cohesion
Trello solves the problem of:
Ø Long email threads
Ø Wasted meetings
Ø Accountability
Ø Clarifying projects
Ø Forgetfulness
Ø Transparency
Teams: Your workspaces
Boards: The virtual whiteboard
Lists: Categorizing your activities
Cards: Where work gets done
Turnover - this lets you indicate what stage of completion the project is at.
Notifications inform you about news from the boards and tasks you’re a member of.
Web Portal - contains information from different sources