Simple Kanban Board Template
A Kanban board is a visual project management tool that helps Agile and Lean Teams get efficient and transparent. It uses columns and cards to help track progress. Use Xtensio’s simple kanban board template to manage your team’s internal or client projects.
- Create planning flexibility, easily reprioritize by moving tasks between different columns.
- Visualize your team’s workflow and limit bottlenecks in your team’s process by allowing people to focus on tasks at-hand.
- Promote a continuous workflow to deliver faster while ensuring high quality work.
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A Kanban board is a visual project management tool that helps Agile and Lean Teams get efficient and transparent. It uses columns and cards to help track progress. Use Xtensio’s simple kanban board template to manage your team’s internal or client projects.
- Create planning flexibility, easily reprioritize by moving tasks between different columns.
- Visualize your team’s workflow and limit bottlenecks in your team’s process by allowing people to focus on tasks at-hand.
- Create planning flexibility, easily reprioritize by moving tasks between different columns.
- Visualize your team’s workflow and limit bottlenecks in your team’s process by allowing people to focus on tasks at-hand.
- Promote a continuous workflow to deliver faster while ensuring high quality work.
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How to create a kanban board with Xtensio
- Save the simple kanban board template with one click and start editing.
Follow along with the instructional placeholder copy. Add additional charts, graphs, images, and videos to customize and make it your own. Drag & drop. Resize. It is the easiest editor ever.
- Customize everything in the kanban board template to match your brand.
Add your (or your client’s) brand fonts and colors. You can even pull colors directly from a website to easily brand your kanban boards.
- Work on your kanban boards together on the cloud.
Add colleagues (or clients) to collaborate on the kanban board. Changes automatically save and sync across all devices, in real-time.
- Share a responsive link. Present a slideshow. Embed. Download a PDF/PNG.
The kanban board seamlessly adapts to your workflow. When ready share in any format you need.
- Reuse and repurpose.
Save your own custom kanban board templates. Or copy and merge into other documents.
What is the kanban method?
The Kanban method was created in the 1940s by Toyota Automotive employee Taiichi Ohno as a workflow management system to optimize production stages. In 2004, David J. Anderson used the concept for Scrum and LEAN Software Development when he published the book “Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results”. Now the Kanban framework is one of the most popular methodologies within Agile and LEAN frameworks that provides value by giving teams a real-time visualization of work capacity and transparency on the progress of work being done. It includes a timeline with tasks created as cards where teams can see the task status, track progress and easily tackle roadblocks.
When should I use a kanban board?
Agile and LEAN teams use the Kanban method to track the progress of work from start to finish. It gives teams a powerful way to show progress across cross-functional teams and can be used to manage workflows and provide transparency on project workflows.
How do I create a kanban board?
It’s super easy to create a kanban board with Xtensio’s simple kanban template, and it’s the perfect was to easily collaborate and share the workflow with your team.
- Customize your Kanban board
You can rename the title of the task lists and task cards according to your needs. David Anderson’s original method established that Kanban boards are divided into these:
- Visual signals
- Columns
- Work-in-progress limits
- Commitment point
- Delivery point
We’ve simplified this by creating four columns (lists) to track “To-do”, “In Progress”, “QA (review)” and “Done”
- Add task cards
Each list has cards that you can add details for each task. You can add additonal tasks and move them bewteen lists as they’re moving through your workflow. Add additional cards by selecting the + icon on the menu at the top left of each list and change task status by clicking on the status option on the left of each card.
- Start working on tasks
As tasks are being working on and completed, you can change the task item status and move the cards through your workflow so everyone on your team can see the workflow from start to finish. Make sure you check and update the kanban board regularly so everyone is up-to-date on the project at hand.
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Use Xtensio’s simple kanban template to give your team a real-time visualization of work capacity and transparency on the progress of work being done. It includes a timeline with tasks created as cards where teams can see the task status, track progress and easily tackle roadblocks.
They are not mutually exclusive. In many ways they can go hand in hand. Many Scrum teams use Kanban Methodology to improve their workflows with visual transparency. Generally speaking Kanban is more flexible with responsibilities, timelines and deliverables.
The kanban board includes visual signals, columns (lists), work in progress limits, commitment point and delivery point. You can use task lists and cards to track status and move between lists throughout your workflow.
Yes! You can invite as many people as you’d like to collaborate on your kanban board, ensuring your whole team is aligned. As a platform, Xtensio helps improve the way your team works. Here’s more on real-time collaboration.
When you’re ready to share your completed kanban board, choose between presenting it as a full-screen digital slideshow, sending it as a responsive web link or exporting it as a PDF or PNG. Learn more about the different ways to share your projects in this tutorial video.
We do! There are a number of different product and project management templates, examples and resources to guide you through the process of establishing and growing your business. Learn more about using Xtensio for product managment here.
