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The History of Kanban: From Toyota’s Factory Floor to Agile Teams

The history of Kanban demonstrates how a production-control mechanism developed within Toyota became an influential approach to managing modern knowledge work. Its origins were clo...

What Is Kanban and How to Use It for Personal Productivity: A Practical Guide

Kanban is a visual system for managing work from the moment it enters your workload until it is finished. Used well, Kanban for personal productivity gives you a clearer view of wh...

Scrumban Explained: How to Combine Scrum and Kanban for Agile Project Success

Scrumban provides an innovative approach to project management, combining the best aspects of Scrum and Kanban to enhance team flexibility and responsiveness. By understanding its...

Let there be flow – Die Magie hinter Kanban und Flow

 Kanban wurde bereits 1947 von Taiichi Ohno bei Toyota entwickelt und stammt somit ursprünglich aus der Fertigung. Die Anwendung von Kanban in der Softwareentwicklung ist eigentlic...

SVAR Kanban: flexible drag-and-drop task board for React, Svelte & Vue

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A Kaizen Board in Japan, and a Manager Who Answered Every Sheet

The kaizen board held a couple dozen sheets. Each one numbered, each one stamped “jisshi-zumi” — already done. A board full of carried-out improvements is a strong sign in any fact...

Do Not Remove: What a Kaizen Binder Taught Me in Japan

On a factory table in Japan, in December 2019, there was a binder. White cover, the word KAIZEN in big orange letters, a photo of cherry blossoms underneath. Inside the front cover...

7 Open Source Trello Alternatives For Your Kanban Boards

Trello has changed a lot since I started using it in 2013. If you want that old-school Kanban simplicity back, here are the open source alternatives worth a look.

Obsidian как мини-CRM: как я научил канбан-доску наполняться заказами с Kwork без моего участия

Всем привет. Думаю, читатели моих двух предыдущих статей уже заметили одну привычку: если какую-то задачу можно хотя бы частично затащить в Obsidian, я попробую это сделать. Если н...

How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient

Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How ca...

How to Unleash the Power of Your Highly Specialized Team (Using a Simple Process Policy)

If you’ve been managing highly specialized teams, you’ll certainly have seen how specialization dictates the priority of the work. Worse yet, it often creates road blocks preventin...

開発案件の立ち上げを「60分から1分」に　ソースコード管理も一本化したKDLのBacklog活用術

ヌーラボは、神戸デジタル・ラボ（KDL）における、プロジェクト・タスク管理ツール「Backlog」の事例を公開した。

Karafka 2.6 and Web UI 1.0: Laying the Groundwork for Kafka Queues

Originally appeared on Closer to Code.I'm happy to announce that Karafka 2.6 and Karafka Web UI 1.0 have just been released. For those new here: Karafka is a Ruby and Rails multi-t...

The Drop Times: Shibin Das on Making Drupal Workflows Legible

Shibin Das explains why visual workflow tools need visible execution, audit trails, runtime ownership, and clear boundaries between deterministic workflows and AI-assisted decision...

How to Handle Blocked Tasks Without Losing Predictability

Every delivery team eventually runs into the same situation. A piece of work is progressing well until it suddenly stops. Maybe you’re waiting on another team. Maybe a customer nee...

You Can Ignore the Flow Data. It Still Decides When You Ship.

Image  Somewhere this week a team will commit to a date. A director asks when the feature lands, a room full of capable people stares at a roadmap,...

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What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Says About Standardized Work and Kaizen Being the Same Thing

Most Lean programs treat standardized work and kaizen as opposites. Standardized work is the rigid part. Kaizen is the creative part. One constrains, the other improves. Pick which...

Flow Metrics in Python: 3 Scripts for Ensuring Transparency

Image  Scrum rests on empiricism: transparency enables inspection, and inspection enables adaptation. Most Scrum Teams I work with are reasonably go...

Continuations 2026/27: Hanami 3.0!

Originally appeared on Tim Riley. Hanami 3.0 is out! In this writer’s opinion, a release worthy of its new major version: new mailers, i18n, and Minitest, your apps becoming way...

Mehr Flow durch Mob-Programming

 Warum ist Flow in der Softwareentwicklung relevant?Das Konzept des Flows hat seine Wurzeln in der „Lean Production“ und der „Theory of Constraints“, beides Ansätze aus der Fertigu...

3 example process managers in Rails

Originally appeared on Hi, we're Arkency.3 example process managers in Rails I am writing this blogpost from this beautiful place in the Polish mountains. Our RailsEventStore camp...

Creative Retainer Workflow: Intake to Review in Sprints and Kanban

How a Smarter Creative Workflow Protects Your BrandAd hoc design requests sound harmless, until you are waiting weeks for a simple graphic and your brand starts to look a little di...

This free, open-source app is my task manager, cheerleader, Kanban board, and calendar

Most task managers just let you capture and store your tasks. This one also helps you get them done.