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Posted by Deborah Hartmann Preuss on Aug 25, 2007
Agile projects are not the only ones to use “big visible charts” - Lean manufacturing, for example has its Kanban Boards. In Japanese "Kanban" means, loosely translated, 'card or sign'. In a Lean production system, each Kanban card is "pulled" into the system only when the work represented by an "in progress" card is retired. In this InfoQ article, Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards, Kenji Hiranabe explore visualizations currently used in Agile, then proposes using Kanban Boards to organize three viewpoints (Time, Task, and Team) to track project status and enhance collaboration.
The visualization tools he talks about are:
In the article, Hiranebe introduces a uniquely Japanese addition to status tracking: the Niko-Niko Calendar, on which team members track their mood from day to day.
Hiranabe also mentions his software tool “TRICHORD” that implements Kanban Boards to realize project visualization from the three viewpoints.
Kenji Hiranabe is a frequent blogger and has translated a number of English Agile and XP books into the Japanese language.
Read the InfoQ article: Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards by Kenji Hiranabe.
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Burndown (or burn up) charts can easily be suplemented to add tracking against budgeted hours. That way, they track not just the work completed, but also the effort required to complete it. Details here: www.agilekiwi.com/agile_charts.htm
David Andersen gave me a comment on Parking Lot.
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Hi Kenji,
I liked the paper you gave me to read. I wanted to make a comment about the parking lot diagram. It was first introduced on the original FDD project in Singapore and was first documented in Peter Coad's 1999 book, UML Modeling in Color in Chapter 6, the chapter written by Jeff De Luca.
David
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And he started up a new Yahoo Group about Kanban Boards.
www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/Kanbani...
Looks like there's significant interest in Anderson's Kanban yahoo group, his site says "it's acquired members 80 members in only a few days," and he's looking for leads on who else is doing this kind of work.
Hi, I'm a member of TRICHORD Team.
We have released English Available Version on Sep.11,2007.
If you are interested in TRICHORD,Please visit our Site.
The above URL is wrong, should be;
trichord.change-vision.com/en/index.html
I realize I am demonstrating confirmation bias here, but I really like this article's description of the connection between release, iteration and task boards. I look forward to testing out the TRICHORD software - the biggest problem I've had with existing solutions was this lack of hierarchy and association.
Real kanban carry much information。I prefer its exposure. It is also a furniture for your team.
Ha ha ha, first time I hear about this Kanban and I just realized I've been doing this all along. To Do, Doing, Done - I had three color stickies Red, Yellow, Green. When green was pasted on the feature, that meant - SHIP! Smileys, another thing, I had thumbs up, thumbs down and neutral to emotionally tag events. Good stuff.
A blog could be a easy storage for kanban cards, as posts. Categories can be used as areas of Kanban. Add some javascript and a visual representation is also available. Find here some inspiration
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