kanban development this article is about the processmanagement and improvement method for the leanmanufacturing process see kanban software development core activities processes requirements design engineering construction testing debugging deployment maintenance paradigms and models agile cleanroom incremental prototyping spiral v model waterfall methodologies and frameworks asd devops dad dsdm fdd iid kanban lean sd less mdd msf psp rad rup safe scrum semat tsp up xp supporting disciplines configuration management documentation software quality assurance sqa project management user experience practices atdd bdd cco ci cd ddd pp standup tdd tools compiler debugger profiler gui designer modeling ide build automation release automation infrastructure as code testing standards and bodies of knowledge babok cmmi ieee standards iso 9001 isoiec standards pmbok swebok itil glossaries artificial intelligence computer science electrical and electronics engineering vte kanban mandarin chinese knbn dashboard is a lean method to manage and improve work across human systems this approach aims to manage work by balancing demands with available capacity and by improving the handling of systemlevel bottlenecks work items are visualized to give participants a view of progress and process from start to finish usually via a kanban board work is pulled as capacity permits rather than work being pushed into the process when requested in knowledge work and in software development the aim is to provide a visual processmanagement system which aids decisionmaking about what when and how much to produce the underlying kanban method originated in lean manufacturing overview david andersons 2010 book kanban kanban boards kanban board although kanban does not require that the team or organization use a kanban board they can be used to visualise the flow of work typically a kanban board shows how work moves from left to right each column represents a stage within the value stream the image below is a typical view of a simplified kanban board where work items move from left to right in some cases each column has a work in progress limit this means that each column can only receive a fixed amount of work items with the aim to encourage focus and make system constraints evident examples software development the diagram here and the one in the kanban board section shows a software development workflow the boards designed for the context in which they are used vary considerably and may show work item types features and user stories here columns delineating workflow activities explicit policies and swimlanes rows crossing several columns used for grouping user stories by feature here the aim is to make the general workflow and the progress of individual items clear to participants and stakeholders other uses although it is usually used for software development and software teams the kanban method has been applied to other aspects of knowledge work business functions which have used kanban include human resources marketing organizational strategy and executive leadership lean software development list of software development philosophies kanban successful evolutionary change for your technology business david j anderson united states blue hole press 2010 isbn9780984521401 scrumban essays on kanban systems for lean software development corey ladas united states modus cooperandi press 2009 isbn9780578002149 agile project management with kanban developer best practices eric brechner united states microsoft press 2015 isbn9780735698956 kanban in action marcus hammarberg and joakim sunden shelter island ny manning publications 2014 isbn9781617291050 lean from the trenches managing largescale projects with kanban henrik kniberg dallas tx the pragmatic programmers 2012 isbn9781934356852 stop starting start finishing arne roock and claudia leschik usa leankanban university 2012 isbn9780985305161 realworld kanban do less accomplish more with lean thinking mattias skarin united states pragmatic bookshelf 2015 isbn9781680500776 authority control gnd 77341120 