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What is a Kanban board?

Atlassian · Atlassian Agile Coach Free Beginner

Your short answer calls for a shared board, and this is the clearest primer on what a good one actually does: make every piece of work and its status visible to everyone at once. It explains columns, work-in-progress limits, and how a board surfaces bottlenecks without anyone having to ask. Read it before you set up the board your offshore team updates instead of writing you status emails.

  • A board makes every task and its status visible to all
  • Work-in-progress limits expose bottlenecks early
  • The board is the status, so no separate report is needed
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The question it answers

  1. How do I keep an offshore or remote dev team accountable across time zones?

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