3 posts tagged with "kanban"

Monday morning, you open the board. What you want to know is what's about to blow up: what's already overdue, what's due this week. The board only tells you what's In Progress.

There's a lot it won't show you. You want to see work by client, by sprint, by document type — there's no option for that. You want to pull the unassigned tasks into their own column — also no. You want one column watching overdue items, one watching this week's urgent ones, one just holding whatever was touched most recently, all mixed together — can't do it. The only things you can really change are the column names and their order.

So the board shows you the tool's idea of your work, not yours. The dimensions you care about, it can't hold a single one.

Monday, 9 a.m. You open UnDercontrol, glance at one board, and already know where this week starts.

This is your side project MorningRun — a running social app, currently in Sprint 12. Five columns line up across the board: Todo, In Progress, Review, Deployed, Done. What hasn't started, what's stuck, what's waiting on someone else — you can see it all without opening a single task. Let's walk through a whole week with this one board.

When you have dozens or hundreds of tasks, the kanban board needs to be more than a flat dump of everything. UnDercontrol's kanban boards use a layered filtering system that narrows your view step by step — from the broadest scope down to a real-time search. Understanding these four levels will change how you organize your work.