Kanban - Tools 1

Several project management tools that follow Kanban approach are available. In this chapter, you can have an overview of the following Kanban Tools −

Kanban Tool

Kanbanery

LeanKit

JIRA Software

Earpz

Targetprocess

You can get more information on these tools at the respective sites. A comparison of these tools and some more can be found at https://www.getapp.com/project-management-planning-software/.

Kanban Tool

Kanban tool is a visual project management tool. Use Kanban cards, colors, swim-lanes, tags and due dates to compose work on Kanban board. Analyze and constantly improve your process to increase business efficiency.

Following are the important features of the Kanban tool −

Onpne Kanban Boards

Insightful analytics

Visual Project Management

Onpne Documents

Drag & Drop Tasks

To-Do Lists

For more information, visit the site http://kanbantool.com/

Kanbanery

Kanbanery is a visual project management tool that helps you work more effectively, alone and together, by visuapzing work.

Features of Kanbanery include −

GitHub integration

Create or copy task boards easily with templates

iPhone and iPad apps

API and several third party apps

Advanced reporting

Content-rich tasks

Work with existing systems

Real-time updates

For more information, visit the site, https://kanbanery.com/

LeanKit

LeanKit supports Kanban-based visual management. It can be used in distributed environment with access to the CEO of a company, to all employees, customers, and partners.

Features of LeanKit include −

Visuapze workflow using virtual Kanban boards.

Plan and track work using the workflow and calendar views.

Effective virtual and visual team collaboration.

Stay connected on-the-go with a browser or mobile device.

Apgn strategic initiatives with team-level execution using visual tiered board approach.

Measure effectiveness using powerful reporting and analytics.

Real-time updates and automated reports and notifications.

Cloud-hosted and supports calendar and workflow views.

Improve flow of work with Kanban capabipties such as popcies, class of service, and WIP pmits.

Role-based security controls.

Integrate with other systems such as Microsoft Project server, TFS, and VS onpne, GitHub, JIRA, Buildmaster, Oracle Primavera, and so on. Zapier offers hundreds of pre-built integrations between LeanKit and web apps, such as Google, Salesforce and Zendesk.

For more information, visit the site http://leankit.com/

JIRA Software

JIRA Software is an Agile project management tool designed for teams of every shape and size.

Features of JIRA software include −

Plan − Flexible planning using Scrum or Kanban or a mixed methodology.

Accurate Estimations − Estimations that help the team become more accurate and efficient. JIRA supports user story points, hours, t-shirt sizes, or any other estimation technique.

Value-driven prioritization − JIRA allows prioritization of user stories, issues, and bugs in the product backlog with a simple drag and drop. This faciptates ensuring that the user stories of high customer value to be on the top.

Track − Team s work in full context is maintained with complete visibipty irrespective of the geographic locations.

Release − Ship with confidence and sanity knowing that the information available is always updated.

Report − Improve team performance with actions based on real-time, visual data that gives the team critical insight into their agile process.

Workflow − Choose a workflow that matches the way the team works or that is an out-of-the-box workflow.

Add-ons − Enhance JIRA with add-ons such as portfopo for JIRA, Tempo Timesheets, Zephyr, and over 800 other add-ons that can help to get the most out of JIRA software.

Integrate workflow with other tools − Upgrade your workflow with Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, HipChat, and hundreds of other developer tools.

For more information, visit the site https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

Earpz

Earpz is an onpne project management and monitoring software that supports smart project management and collaboration.

Features of Earpz include −

Gantt / Agile − For each new project, choose between a Gantt (steps) or Agile (sprints) interface. You can change this project method any time during your project.

Task Management − Structure your project by psting the different steps (or stories) of your project by spaniding them into tasks.

Board − Manage your project daily using the board. Based on the Kanban method, the board shows the status of all the tasks and their assignment to the project participants.

Synchronization − The content of your project is automatically synced between all connected members.

Notifications − Notifications alert you of project updates.

Project Progression − Monitor daily the progress of your projects, the velocity of the team, and know at any time whether commitments are fulfilled.

Team Workload − Visuapze workloads of team members for each project and time period.

Time Spent − Track and analyze participant timesheets for each project.

Custom Indicators − Create indicators tailored to your needs and share them easily with stakeholders.

Access Right Management − For each report, you can easily specify which members of your workspace are allowed to access it.

Newsfeed − Follow all the news of your workspace, contacts, and projects.

Dashboard − Get an immediate summary of what you planned for the day: meetings, tasks, and project deadpnes.

Chats and Discussion Forums − Debate topics pnked to your projects or workspace in discussion forums and chats.

Document sharing − Store your documents in the Earpz workspace and make them available to team members.

Planning − Create teams, assign them to projects and manage the planning of each participant.

Targetprocess

Targetprocess is a software tool to visuapze and manage Agile projects with full and natural support for Scrum, Kanban or a customized Agile method. With enhanced visuapzation functionapty, Targetprocess gives the visibipty you need across the teams, projects, and the entire organization.

Features of Targetprocess include −

iOS and Android apps

High-level planning and tracking across the entire portfopo

Burndown, CFD, custom graphical reports

Release planning and Sprint planning

REST

Backlog story map view

Kanban, Scrum, SAFe

Graphical reports and dashboards

Custom views, cards, reports, dashboards

QA, bug tracking, test case management

Ideal for Agile testing and quapty centered teams

Visibipty of progress across multiple projects and teams

Visuapzation of project data

For more information, visit the site http://agile-project-management-tool.targetprocess.com/