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0 pointseyelidlessness4y ago0 comments

> The idea is to get away from the kanban board look and to help you track your sprint flow.

Can you say why? Kanban is literally the only thing I like about capital-A Agile. I doubt either of will convince the other to change our minds. But in the interest of helping you refine what you’re building and how you communicate it, articulating what you don’t want is valuable too.

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tanylak4y ago

Originally Kanban was designed to visually track inventory. It is useful in that context because you could easily spot the items that need refilling.

I've been doing project management for a over a decade now and from my experience, and interviewing people, reading, I realized that people work best in lists. Top to bottom, most important tasks at the top, least important at the bottom. It helps us focus and get more done.

So that's the primary idea behind it.

eyelidlessnessOP4y ago

Thanks for the response. I’m more confused than when I started.

You’re saying Kanban was designed to track inventory. I think that’s true but not completely accurate. It was designed to track work and inventory together.

> people work best in lists. Top to bottom, most important tasks at the top, least important at the bottom. It helps us focus and get more done.

I’m so confused! This is exactly what Kanban is supposed to be. It’s not supposed to be anything more than that, or less.

Where did the bad PM Jira you?

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