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Super interesting points here. You mentioned that the real-world Kanban board forces you to empty slots to make room... I've never seen that in any of the softw
by po 9y ago
Super interesting points here. You mentioned that the real-world Kanban board forces you to empty slots to make room... I've never seen that in any of the software Kanban-style systems have you?
I've played around (in spreadsheets and basic apps) with trying to create systems that scaled available slots to team size as a way to force correct granularity.
- apenwarr 9y agoNo, I've never seen it enforced by tools. Physical (index cards) kanban boards have an implicit space limit though, and this is one of the too-seldom-acknowledged reasons why they work as well as they do. Unfortunately the software clones of physical kanban boards copied the unnecessary part (visual appearance of index cards) and not the necessary part (limited space at each phase).
- WorldMaker 9y agoRally lets you set card limits in each column, though in practice that always seemed too easy to change (just add a couple more to the limit; just "temporarily" turn off the limit) to be entirely beneficial.
- yalooze 9y agoAre you talking about work-in-progress (WIP) limits? I've seen tools enforce this so you can't pull another story into the current list. Other tools let you pull but highlight the fact that you're going over the WIP limits by making the whole column eg. red. Or do you mean something else?
- benji-york 9y agoI've used LeanKit's Kanban board to enforce per-lane WIP limits. It works quite well and is, in my opinion, one of the most important aspects of using Kanban boards for software development.