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.

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.

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.