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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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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
Twitter
@KanbanZone
1,476 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
6 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Kanban Zone Reviews

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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 Media

Kanban Zone Demo - Simple Design
Simple design focused on Kanban methodology
Kanban Zone Demo - Responsive Design
Responsive design for mobile devices
Kanban Zone Demo - Flexible Board Editor
Build any Kanban board you can imagine
Kanban Zone Demo - Project Management
Plan and track all your work
Kanban Zone Demo - Portfolio Kanban System
Portfolio Kanban System to flow work efficiently across your organization
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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 :)

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Intuitive UI to get started in the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

There is a lack of some good and simple features, in my company, we already talked with you about this features and you prioritized in your current development of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm using as a kanban board for innovation in my company. It give us all the transparency that we need to have when we are dealing with a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for the review! :)

LH
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

I like the ability to create boards of different kinds and shapes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The lack of different visualization, like per-person lanes, and the fact that adding new cards to a lane is somewhat difficult, as it always goes to the backlog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

It's still under development. You can use it for your custom boards and so, but do not expect it to be fully-featured like Jira. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it with my team, to manage an innovation environment and a product development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Dimitri Ponomareff of Kanban Zone

Thank you for your feedback about the ability to "create boards of different kinds and shapes". This is one of our key features and something that other tools can't do because they use perfect grids, instead of flexible containers.

Please note that Kanban Zone has no desire to be bloated like Jira, or what you refer to as fully-featured ;-) In fact, people switching from Jira to Kanban Zone are doing it for the simplicity and accurate metrics. 

Thanks to your review we will revisit the ability to create cards outside of the backlog. Regarding the per-person lanes, we will not add that feature because it promotes silos within a team and viewing cards per person can easily be achieved with our filters. We sincerely appreciate your honest feedback and will continue to seek to strike a balance between cool features and respecting the Kanban methodology.

Shane C.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The API's! We were able to integrate it into our website to enhance our processes. Now forms and feedback on the website create a card and are auto assigned. This has greatly increased our process response time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Everything I have asked for has been put in place via a feature enhancement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The tool has greatly increased our cross team collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

We're happy to hear this, Shane! Thank you for the review :)

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

The ability to track task and also @mention people for faster notifcations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The UI is not very friendly, I prefer other task management software suites like Atlassian Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

Kanban Zone is for business oriented tasks, if your looking for a solution that is geared towards managing more technical projects, I would use another software. For organization like PMI where most tasks are less infrastructure like, it's ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are mainly using Kanban Zone as a method to track WIP or Work In Progress. I think the main benefit were getting is that we are now using a task management software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Dimitri Ponomareff of Kanban Zone

Harrison, you are using Kanban Zone within the context of your PMI chapter seeking a collaborative solution to leverage Kanban to improve their internal processes. It's doing exactly what they are seeking for the overall PMI chapter.

You are correct that Kanban Zone is meant for improving the flow of work across the organization, not only for software development. This is what makes us different. If you are strictly seeking an issue tracker then Atlassian is great for that.

If you want to get the full Kanban Zone experience then request to be promoted to administrator, or create your own account with our free trial. Our team will be happy to assist you in setting up everything you need for your technical projects.

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Very flexible to setup categories, board columns and lanes and very easy to use, intuitive and does not require a lot of training to start using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The tool is specific to Kanban, for enterprise needs that also include scrum teams would need another method to integrate into a portfolio tool for portfolio level transparency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy tool for end users to start using quickly and effectively. An easy, cost effective way to get teams up and running using Kanban and realizing the value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Easy to use, quick to understand and cinvenient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Too simple to fit the other complex request Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

No comment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can easily to find the utility of equipment on production line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for taking the time to leave this review :)

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

The Simplicity & Power of the software is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

Additional features in fields and report gathering would be nice. Perhaps a way to measure when a card is "on hold" from a third party. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kanban Zone:

Try it first to see if it fits your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Full visibility to items that were previously tracked with outdated methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for taking the time to leave this review :)

Anthony O.
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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Ease of use for setting up & getting new users up to speed

Education and training enablement

Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

I haven't discovered anything I don't like about it yet. Will update as I go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Getting multiple teams to collaborate around critical work deliverables

Helping business partners define the right work at the right time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for giving us the 5-star review, Anthony! Happy to hear that Kanban Zone works really well for you :)

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What do you like best about Kanban Zone?

Kanban Zone helped us streamline the process and allows us to all understand where we are in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kanban Zone?

The boxes aren't always super configurable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The best benefit we discovered was being able to see where we are at in the process at all times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Fike Komala of Kanban Zone

Thank you for taking the time to give us this valuable feedback :)