How Granular should my (Personal) Kanban Board be?
This question comes up not only in Personal Kanban but also for teams and enterprise (portfolio) kanban boards as well. It is a great question
October 12, 2016
Digité Blog
Lean, Agile, Visual Management from the Trenches
SwiftKanban iOS app Update
We have just released an update for the SwiftKanban iOS app! This update implements a big feature request from our customers! It implements the “Move card” functionality that allows users to move cards on their Kanban board wherever they need. Just select the card, click the ‘Move’ icon on the bottom right – and you can choose where to move it! We have made simple UX tweaks and fixed a few minor bugs to enhance the usability and functionality of the app. Please check out the update and let us know how you like it!
September 30, 2016
SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – Sep 2016
The SwiftKanban team at Digité has released a major update recently with a view to support Enterprise Services Planning with Kanban. With this new update we have added the most sought out feature of customizing the information that a user can see on Kanban cards in the Kanban board view. Here are some of the highlights of this update. Enhanced Portfolio Swim Lane – The Portfolio feature has been enhanced to a greater extent so that you have the flexibility of measuring and managing the progress of the parent-level cards…
September 27, 2016
SwiftKanban Feature Update – Sept 2016
With the latest update to SwiftKanban, we have made some exciting progress in supporting Enterprise Services Planning, Upstream or Discovery Kanban – and Portfolio Management with Kanban. At the same time, we have tackled one of the most needed, and fairly tricky, feature of customizing the information one can see on Kanban cards in the Kanban Board view. Upstream Kanban and Minimum WIP Limits. Enterprise Services Planning helps organizations focus on the need to look at various organizational functions (departments) as services that need to be delivered smoothly…
September 27, 2016
Handling ticket Issues With Kanban
David J Anderson’s book on Kanban shows us that a way to handle ticket issues is by attaching a color tag to a ticket to
August 21, 2016
Due Dates in Kanban Systems
Many teams adopting Kanban come from Agile background. Agile thinking has discouraged the use of Due Dates. Due Dates breed undesirable behavior. Focus on Due
July 21, 2016
Tracking your Team’s Work with SwiftKanban
One of the core Kanban principles is working with small batch sizes for achieving greater flow and output. In the context of software, this means small and continuous releases where you shorten the release cycle for faster time to market. As a development manager, it means that you need to continuously keep track of work being completed against the cards on the board and look for card updates from time to time. For any reasonable sized team…
May 27, 2016
A Peek into the TC World Conference
February in Bangalore is warm. And it became warmer on 25 and 26 Feb, when more than 300 technical communicators and language professionals across the world hobnobbed with each other at the annual TC world conference, held at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore. This annual event, jointly organized by #tekom and #TWIN, has gained tremendous popularity and wide-spread appreciation for creating a robust platform that promotes healthy discussion and insightful sessions on emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in the field of technical communication.
April 21, 2016
How to handle Defects found in User Stories during Development?
We often hear the question – In Kanban, what should we do if a User Story in Test column is found to have a bug that needs to be fixed? Let’s say the workflow is something like this: Todo -> Development -> Test -> Release. If a User Story has completed Development and moved to Test, and a tester finds a bug, what should we do to that User Story? Is it right to leave that User Story in Test and the developer should stop their current development work to fix this Defect first? If so, does this mean that developers must be interrupted all the time to clear the bugs found in Test?
February 15, 2016
Kanban – The Product Manager/ Owner’s BFF!
Of all the roles in a software or product development organization, I will argue the Product Manager’s (or Owner’s) job is the most challenging. On the one hand, the task of figuring out just what to build is complex and multifaceted. On the other hand, in any reasonably mature product organization, there is so much work that is going on and so much new demand, that the Product Manager can wish all they want in terms of product innovation and focus on the product roadmap, but failure and customer demand pretty much hijacks most of the Dev capacity in the organization.
January 31, 2016
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