What are Kanban Cards? - Agile Coach (2019)

Kanban cards are visual and sometimes physical cards that track the status of a work item over time. Kanban cards have a title, description, owner, and status to give visibility and traceability to team members. Kanban cards have evolved from their origins in lean manufacturing and are now used by agile software development and service teams. In this video we talk about the history of kanban cards, how to create them, what information they track, and how much work each card should be.

Kanban cards were first used by Taiichi Ohno in the Toyota Manufacturing System. Kanban cards were used to help create a demand driven system, where supplies would only be ordered when they were needed. This laid the groundwork for the Just In Time(JIT) and lean manufacturing.

Kanban cards then evolved into physical artifacts that traced the status of a work item over time. This evolution inspired how software and service teams use kanban today. Kanban cards are made for every work item that the software team will work on, with a title and description for each item.

Many kanban teams have service desk software, like Jira service desk, where customers can make kanban cards for the team to work on. Other software teams make their own kanban cards in planning meetings.

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[matthewglover]

Very useful set of videos thanks. I am looking to start this with our IT Operations team which handles planned work (projects from IT & business) plus servicedesk tickets (unplanned). Would you recommend starting by putting all work onto the board from day one? Thanks for your help. Matt

[rogeriorolives]

Hello thanks for the video. I have some doubt when I work with Jira Kanban. I used to work with Scrum board and in generally I have created one story and some tasks for this story. I have this structure because I have different people that working to achieve the story for example BackEnd and Front End. I would like to know how I could work with Jira Kanban with subtasks.

[yevgeniiashevchenko]

Thank you for the video! Really helpful. But please, guys, stop using that background music. It's so irritating if you want to here the speaker and especially if you make playing speed faster :).
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