LeanKit: Essential Tools for Lean Processes and Visual Management
Since our 1.0 release in February, the LeanKit team has been working hard releasing multiple major and minor releases of functionality and system capabilities. With these new capabilities has come some neccesary and unneccesary overhead to the system. Coupled with the fact that our customers are mapping more and more complex value streams and processing [...]
Customizable Card Types (screencast)
You can now edit the default card types of feature, task, defect, and improvment, as well as add as many new ones as you like, and choose your own card colors. (more)
Class of Service (screencast)
Use Class of Service to manage risk based on cost of delay, support SLAs, and make policies explicit. [...]
Hat Tip
Credit for inspiration for our new CSV import wizard goes to Vertical Response, our email-marketing service providers. We love their service, and their CSV import process was nothing short of inspiring. So we completely re-wrote ours from the ground up, to try and emulate what we liked about theirs.
Over the weekend, we deployed some bug fixes and some little niceties we’d like to point out to our users. First of all, we fixed some bugs and some UI funky-ness that caused lane heights to be a little off at times. I think you’ll see that they line up much more nicely now, especially [...]
Over the weekend, the LeanKit Kanban team updated all our beta subscribers with a set of new features, including the ability to divide lanes into horizontal sublanes, and to nest sublanes within each other several levels deep. We’d been “dogfooding” these features for some time, and had recently exposed them to a set of [...]
We are very excited about the new analytical capabilities that will soon be released within LeanKit Kanban. We hope these tools can provide your organization with valuable insight into the effectiveness and throughput of your system as well as helping you recognize and exploit the constraints or bottlenecks within your system. We feel that these [...]