Kanban Board For Excel

Description

Kanban Board For Excel – Professional Version

The Kanban Board for Excel tool enables you to manage your work in process visually via Excel.  No third-party tools required.  Use the project management tools you already have at your disposal to plan and manage the work your team has lined up.

What is Kanban?

First used in manufacturing, kanban is a workflow management system based on visual cards on a centralized board.  So, stages of the workflow process are represented as columns and cards represent work in process.  Cards move from left to right on the board showing their progress towards completion.

Where is Kanban used?

After gaining popularity in manufacturing, kanban next became popular in software development.  So, when you walked into a software development team’s area you were greeted by whiteboards covered in sticky notes.  Teams faithfully gathered around these boards each day and conducted stand-ups, miniature status meetings, to communicate progress and plans for the day.

It wasn’t long until teams began to look for digital solutions.

Why Excel for Kanban?

Excel is one of the most prolific project management tools today.  It is the default spreadsheet tool for most organizations worldwide.  Because of its ease of access and powerful functionality it works well for providing Kanban boards for organizational teams.

How does Kanban Board For Excel work?

The Excel tool provides multiple sheets to allow you to enter team and task information.  As you update information the Kanban board sheet updates automatically.  From there, print the board or save it as a PDF or document, and distribute it to your team as your needs require.

The flexibility that comes with using Excel for your Kanban board makes it suitable for practically any agile team.

What’s in the Professional Version?

If you’ve tried the free version of Kanban Board for Excel and want to upgrade the professional version gives you what you need.  This professional version of the Kanban Board for Excel allows you to manage larger teams and more tasks.  Because of this, you have the capacity you need to manage your agile teams via Kanban in Excel.