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What is Kanban?
What is Kanban?
Kanban is another quality management tool originating in Japan from the manufacturing industry.
Kanban is a system that helps define, manage, and improve services for delivering knowledge work. The system enables you to visualize your work, maximize efficiency, and improve continuously.
The Japanese word “Kanban”, which means “visual board” or a “sign”, has been used in the sense of a method definition since the 1950s.
Using the Kanban method/ Kanban board in your organisation can :
- Promote focus
- Increase productivity
- Increase visibility
Kanban Boards
Kanban boards helps an organisation in creating a shared space where the organisation or team can visually manage their tasks. This can improve an organisations workflow, reduce time take on leads, and therefore giving your customers more value.
Kanban boards help teams:
- See work in progress
- Streamline their processes
- Keep work flowing from “To Do” to “Done”
The use of visualisation can be value adding in managing processes that need to be completed before progressing to the next.
Reasons for Using Kanban Boards
- Visualisation – connecting our brains’ instinctive inclination for absorbing visual information.
- Flexibility – they are intended to be personalised(flexible) to your team’s distinctive process and can progress with your team as it matures.
- Improve efficiency and encourage focus – ensures that top priority tasks stay top priority, therefore everyone stays focused on doing what needs to done before starting new work.
- Unified distribution of work – they provide a virtual shared space where everyone can work autonomously together.
- Better collaboration – provides a platform for teams to have deeper conversation through managing and communicating about work in the same place.
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