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Chris Hefley

Chris Hefley is a co-founder of LeanKit. After years of coping with “broken” project management systems in software development, Chris helped build LeanKit as a way for teams to become more effective. He believes in building software and systems that make people’s lives better and transform their relationship with work. In 2011, he was nominated for the Lean Systems Society’s Brickell Key Award. Follow Chris on Twitter @indomitablehef.

Careful! We Have Hot Keys

Now, on the options tab, you can enable Hot Keys to make commonly used actions even easier: Try Planview AgilePlace Kanban Free for 30 days! Once Hot Keys are enabled, you can use them any time you are viewing an online kanban board: to add new cards, search for cards, or view the backlog and archive. Keep...

10 Kanban Board Examples – Planview AgilePlace Style

Earlier today, Mattias Skarin (co-author of the highly-recommended Kanban and Scrum: Making the Most of Both) posted examples on his blog of “10 different kanban boards as used in operations, development, sales and marketing.” We here at Planview AgilePlace we pride ourselves on being the most versatile, flexible and powerful tool available for online Kanban, so we wanted...

Tagging a Kanban Card

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we deployed a new feature – Tagging. Now you can “tag” a kanban card with any value you wish, or as many as you wish. You can filter the board by tags, including searching for cards that don’t have a given tag (e.g., search for Release 1.2, !deployed). You can filter the analytics and...

External Card ID and Enhanced CFD

Over the weekend we added a couple of new features to Planview AgilePlace’s online kanban system, based on requests from our customers. Cumulative Flow Diagram Enhancements We’ve added a couple of nice new features to the Cumulative Flow Diagram. Now you can filter the CFD by Card Type or Class of Service, by clicking on the tabs...

Lean Startup Kanban Boards Examples

In a blog post today on agilefocus.com, William Pietri outlines his approach to tracking experimental work through the value stream of a Lean Startup. Being a “Lean Startup” ourselves (though we don’t really think of ourselves as a “startup”…but close enough), I found this line of thought intriguing. So, I decided to take a crack at modeling...