Create a Kanban Board
Voltage Control
Facilitating transformation through conversations that matter
Use a Kanban board during prototyping so you have a visual overview of all tasks and who is responsible. Typically, this is a physical Kanban made on the whiteboard. The Stitcher (the Design Sprint “scrum master”) uses this tool to make sure everything is moving along and who to ask for an asset.
Benefits
- Keeps everyone up-to-speed on jobs that are in progress and what need to be done.
- Team members can self-select tasks that still need to be done.
- Participants can request support from team members that recently completed jobs.
STATS
Time
30 mins
Activity
Group
Sprint Type
All
Directions
- Create three columns: To Do, Doing, Done.
- Use Post-its to capture job task descriptions and place them in the To Do column.
- Sort the jobs by priority, which the highest priority jobs at the top.
- Assign each task to a team member, by writing their initials on the Post-it
- When a team member starts a task they will move the card to “in progress”
- Once the task is completed, the team member moves the Post-it to the done column.
- Have the stitcher monitor progress of the Kanban board and encourage team members to support one another
