Kanban Boards

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 Kanbans Boards are visual charts that help you manage tasks. You move tasks from column to column as the tasks progress.  
 Very basically 
 
 What is the high-level task? 
 Who owns that task?  
 What is the status of that task?  
 
 You can organize these things in a spreadsheet too, but a Kanban board is a nice way to see it at a larger scale.  
 Typically, a Kanban organizes tasks into columns that are  To Do, In Progress,  and  Done . Some other columns might be "Punted" for tasks that are lower priority – you might put this column before  To Do . Or you might need approval before tasks go into the  To Do column, so you might have a column that's "Awaiting Approval" and you want to rename  To Do to "Queued Tasks". There's a lot of ways to visually organize your efforts!  
 In some tools, you can add a ton of information and automation to each task : 
 
 What are the details of this task when it's completed? 
 Are there sub-tasks? 
 Is it part of a phase?  
 Is there an individual within a department that "owns" the task?  
 What is the next task when this one is complete?  
 Is there a category of task that it's flagged? 
 Is there a priority associated with each task?  
 
 
 
 
 
 A good Kanban tool can reorganize and filter tasks into different columns if there's a specific flow to them, or if you want to visualize tasks in different categories.  
   
 In a known process for location scouting, you might have columns that are related to contextual status. 
   
 Column 1 could be "To Scout" with a list of locations, 
   
 Column 2 "Write Report" 
 Column 3 "Executive Review" 
 Column 4 "Acquire"  
 Column 5 "Not Using"