Kanban is great for visualizing your process and tracking effort. But when it comes to larger or multiple projects it often gets cast aside as unsuitable.
This may have been true a few years ago, but with modern Kanban tooling such as Teamhood, you no longer have to give up the visual approach.
While you may be skeptical about this, here are the unique features that allow for multi-project management within a Kanban system.
1. Flexible Kanban board structure with swimlanes, statuses, and sub-statuses.
Many Kanban tools on the market offer very limited Kanban boards, but that is not true for Kanban systems. Here, you can easily classify your tasks with Swimlanes and multiple commitment points. Thus making it easy to manage and identify the most important work.
2. Customizable visual cues.
Another crucial aspect of multi-project management is focusing your attention where it matters. For this, systems like Teamhood allow you to go beyond coloring tags or overdue items.
You can choose to color rows, statuses, and items, as well as feature attached images on item cards. All of which lends to the quest of getting attention where it is needed.
3. Global reporting.
Lastly, make sure your chosen Kanban system offers global reporting for all the boards within your workspace. This may seem minor, but it means you will be able to track each project on a separate Kanban board while reviewing progress for all of them in one place.
This includes a global workload view to easily match capacity with the project needs.
Seems like you could use a system like this? Learn more about multi-project management with Kanban.
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