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Planview LeanKit enables organizations and teams to visually track and manage the flow of work from strategy to delivery in enterprise Kanban boards

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  • Share a consolidated view of work priority and status – whether in the same room or distributed across the globe. View • a larger version of the image
    END-TO-END VISIBILITY

    Share a consolidated view of work priority and status

    Leverage flexible enterprise Kanban boards to visualize the work of teams regardless of the methodologies they apply or workflows they follow. Gain insight into progress and create opportunities for better alignment.

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  • Visualize work and work in progress (WIP) to allow teams to create a plan of action, manage delivery, and adapt to change over time. View • a larger version of the image
    TEAM PLANNING AND COORDINATION

    Facilitate coordinated planning and delivery

    Use boards to breakdown work, build and manage plans, and execute against strategy to deliver more value to customers, faster.

  • Leverage Board Health and card connections to manage dependencies, track the flow of work, and visualize delivery risks. View • a larger version of the image
    DEPENDENCY VISUALIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

    Identify risks to plans and sequence work accordingly

    Quickly surface risks to plans resulting from cross-team dependency conflicts, blockers, and capacity constraints, and help drive proactive measures to enable teams to deliver on time.

  • Align Objectives and Key Results across your business to understand how objectives are pursued, connected, and shared. View • a larger version of the image
    OUTCOME-BASED GOAL SETTTING

    Set clear objectives and streamline work

    Foster an outcome-based approach to strategy and delivery leveraging Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Gain clear line of sight into connected work, from the Portfolio to the teams, all within a single solution.

  • Collaborate in real time using virutal sticky notes on a configurable interface to structure meetings and plan next steps. View • a larger version of the image
    VIRTUAL COLLABORATION

    Digital workspace for improved collaboration

    Host Lean Coffee meetings, incremental planning sessions, retrospectives and more using a virtual canvas to facilitate conversations and share ideas. Transfer cards into team boards to put ideas or plans into action.

  • Use powerful built-in reporting and analytics such as Flow Reports to identify risks and spot opportunities for improvement. View • a larger version of the image
    REAL-TIME ANALYTICS

    Improve flow and promote continuous improvement

    Utilize board health metrics involving bottlenecks, WIP, and throughput to guide the optimization of workflows, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery. Use Lean and Agile metrics to assess team performance and promote continuous improvement. 

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Key Planview LeanKit features

Getting work done is easy when your team has the best project management tools that enable traditional and accidental project managers to plan and execute work with their teams.

  • Process and Work Visualization

    Visually manage work using Kanban boards with the flexibility to easily model any workflow process, regardless of complexity

  • Online Kanban Boards

    LeanKit’s online Kanban boards for Lean and Agile teams helps you visualize your workflow and begin to see things you never saw before.

  • Real-time Work Status

    Drag and drop cards across lanes on a board, with custom categorization labels that represent different types of work, to share up-to-the-minute progress

  • Identify Risks to Delivery

    Visually communicate blocked work and identify process bottlenecks to ensure that risks to flow are addressed as quickly as possible

  • Cross-team Work Connections

    Break down and distribute connected work across teams that visualizes parent-child relationships to easily monitor roll-up statistics and potential issues

  • Work in Process (WIP) Limits

    Set limits on the number of cards that can be put in any lane or sub-lane on your board or define the number of items that can be assigned to each team member

  • Work Planning and Delivery

    Use backlog within each board to plan, organize, and prioritize upcoming work, execute in-progress work, and move it through to completion into delivering value

  • Complex Process Mapping

    Create new or edit existing board layouts by dividing lanes into multiple steps with horizontal swim lanes to represent different workflows on the same board

  • Kanban Board Templates

    Use out-of-the-box board templates to create initial work boards or create your own custom template for repeatable processes

  • Visible Process Policies

    Ensure process consistency across your team: add, update, and share defined policy details for any lane/step in the value stream

  • Work Item Health and History

    View a complete audit trail of all changes made to a card including WIP limit violations and block/unblock details, lane movements, and assigned users

  • Lean and Agile Metrics

    Use built-in metrics to assess team performance, make sound strategic decisions, and promote continuous improvement without disrupting team productivity

  • Objectives and Key Results

    Identify the right goals to go after at each level of your organization and focus execution on measurable outcomes

  • Instant Coffee

    Connect and collaborate in real-time using a built-in virtual whiteboard experience and support Lean Coffee, incremental planning, retrospectives and more

  • Advanced Reporting Capabilities

    Access your Planview LeanKit data in the business intelligence tool of choice to meet your organization’s unique reporting needs

  • Enterprise Integrations

    Integrate Planview LeanKit with your existing enterprise applications, including Agile planning, issue tracking and testing, PPM, ITSM, and service desk tools

  • Search and Filtering

    Quickly locate and navigate to cards on any board and filter board views by user, due date, card type, tag, priority and custom icons to focus on specific items

  • Custom Field Data

    Tailor boards to the needs of your business by capturing additional information in custom card fields that are unique to your team

  • Security

    Learn how Planview ensures customer data is kept secure and private while using LeanKit

  • Collaboration & Notifications

    Keep card comment threads and @mentions in context, attach docs and details for easy sharing. Subscribe to notifications for the latest info.

  • Card Scoring

    Easily provide transparency and confidence around priorities by ranking work on the dimensions that matter most to you and your teams.

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rating 5.0 out of 5 Product Review
“Over the last two years, we kanbanised a lot of our business processes with Planview LeanKit. Our first and to date most successful implementation was in Service Operations. Since then, we started to use Planview LeanKit virtually everywhere, from Sales and Consulting over Project Management, both as meta and project specific boards up to top-level management meeting organization.”
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Daniel Schleusener Director of Operations
C+ITEC AG
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rating 4.0 out of 5 Product Review
“LeanKit allows you to build a Kanban board in minutes, customize boards, drag-and-drop cards across lanes, add comments and documents, implement Work in Progress limits, and easily update the team on the status of a project. It allows us to gain full visibility of different team’s work and eliminate miscommunications and unnecessary handoff delays. LeanKit has great filter options so each user is able to easily manage their tasks without being distracted by items that are not important to them.”
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Anonymous Technician in Information Technology

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rating 4.0 out of 5 Product Review
“LeanKit has great filter options so each user is able to easily manage their tasks without being distracted by items that are not important to them.”
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Anonymous Technician in Information Technology

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Customer Case Study

Insurance Company Leverages Kanban to Improve Delivery Speed by 65%

“Compared to spreadsheets and list-based tools, using Planview LeanKit makes it a lot easier to organize work based on priority and urgency.”
Patrícia IT Service Manager at Fortune 100 Global Insurance Company

Customer Case Study

BECU Drives Agile Adoption Beyond IT, Increasing Transparency Across the Organization

“Planview LeanKit is so easy to use, other departments are utilizing it in their own ways to manage work and projects. It’s highly flexible to meet their unique needs while still giving us an organizational view of what is happening across teams and departments.”
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Sheri Keller Agile coach at BECU
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Customer Case Study

Matisa Gains Visibility and Control Over Projects Across Business Units for Significant Improvements in Project Delivery

“For the first time, people have a strong understanding of the goals and priorities of customers and how their particular role contributes to delivering value to the business.”
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Franck Lombardo Head of Quality and Continuous Improvement

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Connect the apps you use every day

Accelerate delivery and improve the flow of information between teams by integrating Planview LeanKit with the apps you use every day.​

  • • Jira
  • • Broadcom Rally Software
  • • Microsoft Azure DevOps
  • • digital.ai
  • • ServiceNow
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