Anna Majowska·Jun 17The Invisible Kanban Pipeline: How to Expose the Work You Don’t SeeA Kanban board can give the impression of complete workflow order: cards lined up in neat columns, tasks progressing steadily toward…
Anna Majowska·May 6Forecasting and Improvement Through Deeper Kanban Metric AnalysisA team relying on a digital Kanban board with automatic progress tracking quickly learns the definitions of throughput, lead time, and…
Anna Majowska·Apr 14The Hidden Costs of an Over-Complicated Kanban BoardThe humble Kanban board doesn’t receive enough praise for its elegance: a simple layout of process-step-based columns, a set of color-coded…
Anna Majowska·Mar 4Weekly Kanban Check-In: Stay in FlowWhen used effectively, a team’s Kanban board is a living system that tracks the state of work. But when it drifts from reality: cards pile…
Anna Majowska·Feb 9Don’t Be the Bottleneck: Do’s and Don’ts for Kanban Team ManagersFor teams using Kanban to track their workflow, the board is a living system reflecting the state and dependencies of work in process. And…
Anna Majowska·Jan 19Stuck No More: Understanding and Eliminating Work StagnationWork items lingering in the middle of a process, half-built, half-reviewed, or half-thought-out, are a structural and cultural signal that…
Anna Majowska·Dec 10, 2025Perfecting the Kanban Card Design to Make Every Task Clear & ActionableTeamworking ability aside, a team’s Kanban board can only be as effective as its cards. In a way, treating the cards as mere to-do items…
Anna Majowska·Nov 12, 2025Automating Cyclical Work in Kanban for Higher EfficiencyIn a typical knowledge-based work scenario, managing a Kanban board 100% manually works OK for the first few weeks — until one too many…
Anna Majowska·Oct 13, 2025Dynamic Kanban — Designing Adaptive Boards for Changing PrioritiesVisual clarity and simplicity are some of Kanban boards’ core strengths, but what if the clarity turns into rigidity? When workflows…
Anna Majowska·Sep 9, 2025Supporting Concurrent Project Streams with KanbanWhen a team runs concurrent project streams-whether in software, marketing, research, or operations-work visibility can degrade rapidly…
