From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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Using a kanban board

Using a kanban board

- No one has visibility into what teams are doing. We keep getting surprised. We had no awareness that work was blocked. "Yes, I got the status report, "but come on, you expect me to have spotted that." These are just a few challenges teams and their stakeholders, managers, and leadership have with understanding relevant and current information. Far too often, there is a lack of visibility into workflow and work in process. When work is not visible, we often have issues such as harder to manage, less predictable, longer to deliver invisible to downstream activities, lacking effective dependency management. Agile teams benefit significantly from making their workflow visible. Visualization works for us because we process visual data better than any other type of data. Let's look at a visual and see how quickly you can see the different elements. How about this one? I bet you saw that super quickly. Another one. Now think about status reports jam packed with content. Have you ever…

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