Kanban Board for Excel

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. 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. When you walked into a software development team’s area you would be greeted by whiteboards covered in sticky notes. Teams faithfully gathered around these boards each day to conduct stand up meetings, 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 has been and still is one of the most prolific project management tools today. It is the default spread sheet tool for most organizations world wide. With its ease of access and powerful functionality it is well suited for providing Kanban boards for organizational teams.

How does Kanban Board For Excel work?

The Excel tool has multiple sheets to allow you to enter team and task information. As this information is updated the Kanban board sheet updates automatically. From there, you can print the board, save it as a PDF or image, and distribute 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.