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Tonianne D.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

From running a company and client engagements, to writing books, reinforcing new habits and organizing my home and life, I depend on kanban. Outside of work though, I’ve always gone analog. This past holiday season, hosting 4 events w/folks who weren’t co-located required I treat family and friends like a distributed team. Post-its just wouldn't cut it.

How to do that while retaining my humanity, though?

Kanban Zone understood the assignment.

I didn’t want to go all project manager on my cousins. I didn’t want to take the fun out of the season. I didn't want to mechanize an otherwise humane experience. And I certainly didn't have the time to teach anyone a new tool.

But I *did* need everyone to know what was planned, what each dish required ahead of time, what its prep and phasing looked like, who was responsible for what, what they could do when I was too busy to give them instruction and so on.

Kanban Zone gave us a tool that was intuitive, flexible, eminently tailorable, lending clarity, flow, and even calm to an otherwise insane series of Italian dinner traditions. And just like my Nonna’s crystal, I don’t see myself hosting future holidays without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Not dislike inasmuch as it's a request: I'd love to see an integration with Miro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kanban Zone's intuitive interface and flexible customization (and holy heck amazing Support and knowledge base!) allowed me to effortlessly coordinate the distributed "team" of family involved in our holiday. Rather than feeling like a project manager imposing rigid structure, the app enabled us to stay aligned and informed without detracting from the joy and fun of the season.

The real-time visibility, seamless collaboration, and board adaptability were invaluable for keeping holiday preparations on track, from menu planning to task assignments. It was the perfect tool for treating my loved ones like a professional team, while still allowing us to truly enjoy each other's company and make memories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kanban Zone Overview

What is Kanban Zone?

Kanban Zone is a visual collaboration system that embeds the Kanban method pioneered by Toyota, into the most intuitive and flexible no-code interface. Get started fast with templates and experts ready to help you visualize your work in the most effective way. Founded by Agile coaches, who since 2003 have been empowering organizations such as American Express, Choice Hotels and Mayo Clinic to be more efficient. Get into the Kanban Zone by focusing on the right work at the right time, to achieve maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort. Measure key Kanban metrics like throughput (performance) and cycle time (responsiveness) to ensure that you are always improving the way you work. We guarantee that we can recreate online any Kanban board that you can imagine. Whether you leverage our board templates or our team of Kanban experts, we will help you set up the ideal online Kanban solution to achieve your goals faster. Unlike other bloated project management tools, Kanban Zone will allow you to focus on the right work at the right time.

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Product Description

Kanban Zone is a visual process management solution that leverages every aspect of the Kanban methodology. It promotes prioritization, focus and clarity by helping individuals, teams and entire organizations improve the way they collaborate in real-time.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Kanban coaching and support included in all yearly paid plans to help you at every stage of your Kanban maturity. We only do Kanban, but we do it well.


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Year Founded
2018
HQ Location
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Craig P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"An Excellent Kanban Experience"
The flexibility in creating custom portfolio boards that align with our workflow. They give our team access to updates/improvements in our process ...
Tonianne D.
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Tonianne D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Kanban Zone: My Family’s Secret Holiday Weapon"
From running a company and client engagements, to writing books, reinforcing new habits and organizing my home and life, I depend on kanban. Outsid...
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Fernando A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Kanban done right"
Being able to create a virtual kanban board in any way I want without having to compromise and adapt to the technology. The Kanban board I create o...
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Kanban Zone Demo - Simple Design
Simple design focused on Kanban methodology
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Build any Kanban board you can imagine
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Plan and track all your work
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The flexibility in creating custom portfolio boards that align with our workflow. They give our team access to updates/improvements in our process and provide senior management with transparency into our progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Inability to print boards for ease of sharing with non-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are managing over 50 multi-task, multi-phase projects with a team of three. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Being able to create a virtual kanban board in any way I want without having to compromise and adapt to the technology. The Kanban board I create on a whiteboard with my team will be the same.

Kanban metrics. I do not have to adapt the reading of information using other available graphs or use plug-ins to have my kanban metrics that will improve my team's work.

Creating cards by forwarding an email to the board, helps tremendously to organize and feed the backlog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The design was something that I had to adapt my eyes to. I was used to seeing and working with colored fonts and panels coming from all over the place and suddenly I saw a clean canvas to work with. At first, I did find it strange but after a while I got used to it and it's more pleasant to work with since my focus is on the information and not clicking the right panels to see information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to use the Kanban Method without having to adapt to the technology. IT allows me to follow the method exactly as it is meant to be.

Built-in metrics allows to continuolsy improve my teams work and have the must needs conversations to improve the flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Soheil G.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

I love how Kanban Zone simplifies task management with its intuitive interface and customizable boards. It's a great tool for visualizing workflows and staying organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The color scheme of the application not being my personal favorite, but that's a minor aspect in comparison to its functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kanban Zone is solving the problem of disorganized task management by providing a structured visual platform to track and prioritize tasks. This benefits me by helping me keep track of my tasks, set priorities, and collaborate effectively with team members. It ensures that nothing falls through the cracks and allows me to stay focused on what's most important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Easy to use once you understand the basics of what boards and cards are. Exceptional customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Not being able to log into two accounts on the same machine (it creates some errors in some things). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visibility into my team's work and their insight into mine. It's facilitated great communication and planning and has helped move lingering work forward! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for the 5-star review! Your feedback about logging into two accounts has been noted.

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Pros: Kanban Zone provides an excellent space for the organization and management of activities within any work team thanks to the incorporation of its virtual boards, which allow us to visualize the ongoing and pending activities to all team members. as well as those responsible for each activity, which is quite useful if we consider that our team is made up of 15 members, so maintaining order is essential. The first time we used it, I could see that it was quite simple and easy to handle, creating an entry on the board was super simple, plus there I could place the entire description of the activity that had to be developed at that time Another point that I found particularly useful was the fact that the dashboard could be exported to Excel, which allowed us to have a backup in case the web platform did not want to work for us at any given time. Compared to other similar applications such as trello or asana, Kanban Zone provides greater flexibility when making configurations and customizations to our boards, which makes it ideal for new users who are unaware of the use of a virtual board to organize their activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

In some cases, the dashboard could not be accessed correctly, I don't know if it is due to a common system failure or problems with the internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

I decided to implement it as a control tool within my work team since I am a project leader and needed a tool that would allow me to monitor the progress of the team and Kanban Zone was by far the best option I could get for this. homework. Thanks to its implementation, the performance of the team has increased considerably, since everyone focuses on what to do without major distractions, and we are all aware of who performs each activity, so in case it is delaying we can coordinate help by other team members so that everything is fulfilled within the stipulated time periods and the project goes perfectly, truly, Kanban Zone was a great discovery that allowed us to improve and optimize our work time in a more agile way and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Hi Marion, thank you for the review! We're happy to hear that Kanban Zone works for you and your team. Feel free to reach out if you encounter any problems.

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

I am an economist transitioning from graduate school (Ph.D.) to the workplace, where I have increased responsibility. I had seen productive people use Kanban before and wanted to learn. I reached out to Dimitri and Kanban Zone and we set up weekly personal coaching. During the first session, Dimitri helped down my projects into smaller manageable components (cards), and made a board tracking the progress of the cards (is this section of the essay being written, edited, reviewed, or sent to outside reviewers?).

Over the course of a few weeks, I literally saw my productivity improve as I moved cards from backlog to done. This not only helped me shape my ideas, but also was very satisfying at an emotional level as I dragged each card to the next stage. During our weekly check-ins, Dimitri helped me deal with blocked issues, and brought up different Kanban Zone features (such as sizing, blocking, assigning cards to team members, and explicit agreements) that would help with the issues I had encountered that week.

I enjoyed Kanban Zone so much that I put it to use in moving out of my apartment. My partner and I are moving out (new job, therefore we have to relocate), and we had a mess of things in our apartment. We made a Kanban Board and cards for our different types of posessions. Kanban Zone made the moving process much easier. It was very helpful to sit down at the beginning of the day and decide which areas we were going to box that day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

I wish there was more integration outside web browsers (mobile, desktop apps). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kanban Zone has helped me structure my thoughts in my day-to-day work, and has also helped me to organize my personal time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for giving us such a nice review! We're happy that Kanban Zone worked for you :)

Daniel A.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The board editor tool helps to build boards anyway we want in very simple ways, though some concepts are not that intuitive and requires some experimentation. The board itself has good usability, you can expand or hide every column or lane.

The team behind the product is also amazing and very quickly to answer and listen do us, the customes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

General visual. Somehow too many things are tight to each other and still there is lots of white spaces unused. The visual is very flat.

I was a bit confused with metric and reports, too.

Most other things I had issues their team changed, very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having the teams define and discover the best innovation proccess to them and have a tool flexible enough to have their back.

While the boarding tool was very flexible, their admin count restriction caused some unnecessary trouble to me, what they changed later.

That said, I expected flexibility and I got it, even if my proccess was still immature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Hi Daniel, thank you for the review and the feedback :)

Aubrie A.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The @ mentioning is great for pulling in diverse colleagues. It has all the functionality to pull off complex projects with many workstreams. From a UX perspective, I like that you can click and start editing comments and fields in the cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The visual space is a little cluttered, but once you get used to it it's easy enough to navigate. There are a few small things UX-wise that could be improved. The search function in the cards is a little wonky (it highlights the words you searched for in the cards that the search returns, but they're not always at the top of the results). Also, the notifications seem not to refresh after you've seen them ( you have to click each one, but I already get emails for them so I don't really need to click them all). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

Great for organizing teams from different areas on your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a team working in several different countries so this allows us to avoid lots of "chatter" via email or messaging platforms and stay on task. Also, it keeps all of our links organized on relevant cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Hi Aubrie, thank you for leaving such a nice review :) We're glad that Kanban Zone works for you and your team.

Cory S.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The Phoenix PMI Chapter uses Kanbanzone to manage workflow for our volunteer resources. It is extremely helpful and we could not operate it without the virtual tool. If rating the application, I would give it 5 stars. I refer the tool to private for profit organizations as a great way to track work and get things done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Reporting on lists and individual tasks could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

Highly recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem we are attempting to solve is how to get things done when resources work on tasks at different times of the day and multiple locations. The benefits we have realized is that we all can be collaborative and informed on progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Hi Cory, thank you so much for the review!

JC
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

How easy is to create, modify and manipulate boards, there is really no limitations on how simple or complex you need to design a board.

It is simple, intuitive, it just works !

The costumer support is superb, I have sent questions, or requests to the support team and I get a personalized email FROM A HUMAN within minutes. I have reported some bugs and they get resolved within the hour !... I have also asked for special functionalities to be incorporated and as they make sense and are generic, they got implemented within a couple days ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

I would love a more granular security system where you could assign read or write access to specific cards

I would love to see more statistics being generated by the tool other than the generic ones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

Kanbanzone takes away all the hassle and complexity of building and configuring your electronic board and allows you to immediately focus on what is important, work your project out

Start with a minimal basic set so you can start working immediately and add complexity to your board as you go

Use the Custom Fields, its a great way to get all you need from your board. You can for example, create one field to enter the product and track different products or projects within the same board.

Eventually, learn how to use the Public API, that will allow you to integrate your board with other applications for analysis or work reports. I use this API to publish my team's productivity statistics using Power BI.

Encourage the use of Kanban Cards not only to track the project's tasks but also to plan and organize the daily activities within your team.

I ask my team to plan ahead their week of work and create and update the board which we will review once a week to identify possible blockers and in general, have visibility of our job.

If you have a team geographically disperse, an electronic board is the best option to implement your Agile methodology, some electronic boards are very complex to understand and configure for the first time, Kanbazone makes it really easy for me and my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kanban Zone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project tracking

Software Development

Daily activities planning

My team's activities follow up

By entering and following up the activities that I need to cover during the week allows me to properly direct my efforts and the effort of my team towards specific goals

My team of developers is an in house team, we not necessarily need the Scrum Sprints structure but instead a pulling method like Kanban and Kanbanzone is the best tool we could find to keep track of our development activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Hi Jesus, thank you for leaving a really thorough review! It made our day to hear that Kanban Zone works for you and your team :)