Introduction
Kanban is an lean tool that helps teams to manage work by visualizing the workflow, minimize the amount of work in process, optimize the flow and be agile. Jile enables software development and delivery teams to manage their work using visual kanban boards.
Teams which follow kanban way of working can define their work-items in the form of product capabilities or features or stories or a generic support work items and track the progress of such work items on a board. They can define the workflow status representing the actual development/support workflow. They can also define work in process limits for each state to optimize the flow of items and manage any bottlenecks. They can also define a policy for each state which defines the entry and exit criteria.
Software development teams can create a hierarchy of kanban boards representing different levels of work starting form initiatives to capabilities to features and stories. Portfolio Management teams use the Kanban to manage large strategic initiatives portfolio level work-items. Product Owners and product management teams use the kanban boards to manage product discovery and grooming process using capabilities and features work-items. Delivery and execution teams use the kanban to track their development work using stories.
Stories and Support work items can be classified as standard or urgent or fixed date. An item classified as urgent needs immediate attention. A fixed date item needs to be completed based on a specific target date. Impediments which prevent the work-items from progressing can be identified and tracked on the stories and support work-items kanban board.
Kanban Functions
Initiatives - Kanban
Initiatives Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the list of all key initiatives of a product on a kanban board.
Product Capabilities - Kanban
Products Capabilities Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the flow of all product capabilities on a kanban board.
Product Features - Kanban
Products Features Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the flow of all product features on a kanban board.
Product Stories - Kanban
Products Stories Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the flow of all product stories on a kanban board.
Release Stories - Kanban
Release Stories - Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the flow of all stories planned in a release schedule on a kanban board.
- Visualize and track the progress of stories on a kanban board Optimize the flow using configurable WIP limits Define policy which governs the flow of stories on the board Configure custom board statuses specific to your workflow Track flow metrics like throughput, lead time, wait time and efficiency
Support Workitems - Kanban
Support Workitems - Kanban Function helps the teams to visualize and manage the flow of all support and operations related work on a kanban board.
