Digital Kanban

The Columns

• 📥 Inbox - ideas, user feedback, new specifications that emerge as work is delivered.
• ❄️ Icebox - valid work, but needs definition
• ✏ Needs Design - valid work, but needs design and definition
• 📋 Backlog - valid work, prioritized according to 1) user value + 2) throughput
• 🎯 Current - valid work, prioritized and scope for one iteration
• 👀 Acceptance - review to ensure work is delivered according to definition
• ✅ Done - accepted work. work otherwise done. work otherwise decided not to do and is done being considered.

The Flow

• things move left to right
• anybody can add a card
• people add themselves to card. don't assign somebody to a card unless on their behalf. people must take ownership for their work.
• always to try to move a card forward
• is a card clearly written?
  • does it have acceptance criteria/a clear definition of done?
  • does it have a checklist representing the work to be done to get from the current state to the desired done state?