hey guys today I'd like to show you how to build a Kanban board for your scrum or kanban
team
so to get started all you need is some blue painter tape some sharpie's and a bunch of
post it notes of various sizes and colors so you use a kanban board on your team to
visualize the workflows so that the team can track the work that they're actually working
on so the first thing I like to do is to build a horizontal row for the kanban board
first and then create four vertical columns, so lets go ahead and do that
alright so now you've created your first Kanban board and now you need to label each other
column states the first column is your backlog this is your master backlog for the project
highest priority items go high and lower priority items go low the next column is the to do
column then the in progress column and then the done column this is the simplest kanban
board to implement shows each of the statuses now you wanna populate your backlog you use
story tickets I liketo put a certain amount information on my story tickets I like the
title an XYZ user story format definition of done points you might put acceptance criteria
on them and you can even use the back at the ticket if you need extra room for information
so lets populate our backlog and you can even use different colored tickets
to represent different types of
stories for example this blue ticket might be database story and this green ticket might
be in infrastructure story so as you plan as a team you take items and you put them
into the to do state the stories here might represent your sprint
back log and every day during
your daily standup the team gets together in front of the board and they take work and
they move it through the different states so now that we start working on this story
it gets pulled over as this story gets worked on it gets pulled over you can even indicate
ownership of stories by using avatars or sticky notes
for example this orange sticky might indicate a specific person on the team while this blue
sticky might indicate someone else on the team uh stories get blocked you can use a
special flag to indicate blocked stories and this is a block story there's your flag that
tells everyone that story is blocked and then when that story is unblocked simply remove
the flag
as stories get worked on you move them over to the done state and you can even track emotional
state of the team by using smiley face and frowny face avatars this story was really
fun to work on while this story was terrible to work on these are the basics of a kanban
board I also like to use them as information radiators put as much information as
possible about the project around the entire board every good board should have a project
title: a codename a logo display your team's velocity whether it's burn up burned-down
put up rules for the team
a global definition of done maybe team member names email addresses mobile phone numbers
and any visual artifacts that the team's producing like designs or wireframes or schemas the
sky's the limit use your imagination different colored tape different college sticky's you
can even use a drafting dots instead of tape just customize it to whatever suits your
kanban team the best thank you