Lean and Agile enterprise Kanban software for independent and integrated teams
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Get everything you need to get work done and achieve team goals
LeanKit provides everything you and your dispersed teams need to manage your work.
Here’s what you’ll getDefine and visualize your process
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Unlimited Boards
Create unlimited Kanban boards to help you visualize and manage any type of work and workflow in your organization.Included -
Configurable Board Editor
Create and edit your boards on-the-fly with the click of a button.Included -
Vertical Lanes and Sublanes
Add vertical lanes and divide them into sub-lanes as needed to represent the steps in your process.Included -
Horizontal Swimlanes
Horizontal swimlanes can be added within a lane or across the entire board to represent process variations for specific work types.Included -
Board Template Library
Use our growing library of templates to easily create your first board or to gather inspiration for a new process.Included -
Custom Board Templates
Save your board designs as custom templates so that you or other users can quickly and easily create a new board with a standardized process.Included -
Board Templates with Cards
Get started faster by creating a board template with pre-loaded cards.Included -
Duplicate Boards
Create an exact copy of a board for immediate use or to archive a board for later analysis.Included -
Import Boards
Import boards from other teams or organizations that are using a different LeanKit account (such as clients or partners that have related workflows).Included -
Board Legend
Quickly provide context to each user with an explanation of works types and card icons based on your board configuration.Included -
Virtual Whiteboards
Visually manage work of any type or size using LeanKit’s virtual whiteboards. Unparalleled flexibility allows you to easily model any workflow process regardless of complexity.Included
Plan and structure your work
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Backlog Management
Use the backlog section of each board to plan and organize upcoming work.Included -
Archive Management
Move all cards that have been completed or discarded to the archive section of each board.Included -
Create, Edit and Move Cards
Use cards to represent work items and deliverables. Add new cards, edit existing ones, and easily drag and drop cards across the board to represent progress towards completion.Included -
Card Types and Colors
Use a different set of card types on each board to represent different work categories (e.g., task, deliverable, issue). Associate each card type with a different color.Included -
Descriptions and Hyperlinks
Add card descriptions to provide full work context and hyperlink to external resources as needed.Included -
File Attachments
Upload and attach almost any type of standard image or document to your cards. File and total storage sizes are listed for each edition.Included -
Import / Export Card Data
Import or export card data to or from your boards using a spreadsheet (.csv)Included -
Custom Card Headers
Use custom card IDs to easily sort and search for cards within a board. Cards can also be associated with other external systems using standard prefixes, text, links, and numbers.Included -
Custom Card Fields
Tailor LeanKit to meet the needs of your business by capturing additional information in custom card fields that are unique to your organization or team.Included -
Printable Cards
Download cards in a printable format to aid in physical / big room planning.Included
Connect work across your organization
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Move Cards Between Boards
Move cards to and from any board that have you listed as a user.Included -
Connect Cards on the Same Board
Break down work by connecting a parent card to children cards on a board.Included -
Visualize Connections
Visualize card relationships to understand and manage inter-dependencies.Included -
Connect Cards Across Boards
Track and deliver work that span multiple teams, processes, and value streams by connecting related work items.Included -
Connected Card Metrics
Get a quick snapshot of how connected cards are progressing with Connected Card Statistics. Dive deeper to better understand which work items might be at risk.Included -
Multiple Parent Connections
Allow for children cards to have multiple parent cards to track dependencies as well as tie work to epics, milestones, deliverables, epics, projects, initiatives, etc.Included -
Board Levels
Scale LeanKit across the organization by grouping boards into a set hierarchy.Included
Track and visually manage your work
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Start and Finish Dates
Set the date by which each work item should be started and/or completed.Included -
Blockers
Visually communicate if a work item is currently blocked and the reason why. The reason for unblocking a card can also be captured.Included -
Card Size
Use the card size field to capture the estimated amount of work associated with a card.Included -
Card Priority
Visually identify the priority of each work item (low, high, or critical).Included -
Multi-user Assignment
Designate multiple team members to work on a card. Upload avatars to visually represent each team member assigned to the card.Included -
Card History
View a complete audit trail of all changes made to a card.Included -
Activity Stream
Stay up-to-date with every action taken on your team’s board.Included -
Tags
Tag cards with key words to group, search, filter, and report on work items more easily.Included -
Global Search
Quickly locate a card on any board, from any board, and navigate to the card in a single click. In addition to card title and description, global search indexes task boards, comments, tags external IDs and cards in the backlog or archive.Included -
Filters
Filter board views by user, due date, card type, card tag, priority, blockers, staleness, and custom icons to highlight specific items.Included -
My Cards
Quickly view and navigate to all cards that you are assigned or subscribed to, from anywhere within LeanKit.Included -
Task Boards
Customize task cards on your task boards. Task types help you manage multiple types of work within each card.Included -
Task Types
Customize task cards on your task boards. Task types help you manage multiple types of work within each card.Included -
Custom Card Icons
Use custom card icons with flexible field labeling to further categorize, filter, and report on your work.Included
Analyze and report on your data
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Lead and Cycle Time
Understand how long it takes to complete each work item, either from the point at which the work enters the board or from the point the work is started. This information can be used to determine where work is slowing down in your process.Included -
Work Distribution
Understand the distribution of work by team member, process step, type of work, the priority level of each work type and by a specific work type attribute.Included -
Assigned User
Identify individuals or skill sets that are overburdened, understand key resource capacity, and see where additional resources might be needed.Included -
Cumulative Flow and Burn-Up
See how smoothly work flows through your process and determine if the team can complete its current workload by a particular date.Included -
Process Efficiency
Measure when work in queue grows as a percentage of total work in progress (WIP). Determine where work is likely stuck in a queue and also investigate what can be done to get work flowing again.Included -
Burndown
Understand if you’re on track to complete all planned work by the end of your sprint and see the impact of unplanned work. Helpful for teams practicing Scrum and Scrumban.Included -
Exceptions
Identify work items in real time that are blocked, stale or delayed so that you can proactively intervene to keep key deliverables on track.Included -
Planned Percent Complete
Understand how reliably your team hits planned delivery dates by seeing the percentage of work that has been completed early, on-time, and late. Helpful for teams who use planned finish dates to schedule their work.Included -
Advanced Reporting
Access your LeanKit data in your business intelligence tool of choice to meet your organization’s unique reporting needs.Included -
Card Health
Quick insights within each and every work item. Easily understand predicted completion date and likelihood of on-time delivery based on historical performance.Included
Improve your process
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Lane Policies
Ensure process consistency across your team. Define and add policies to the appropriate lanes, and then hover over the lane’s information icon to read the policy.Included -
Work-in-Process (WIP) Limits
Set limits on the number of cards that can be put in any lane or sublane on your board, or define the number of items that can be assigned to each team member.Included -
WIP Violations and Override
Instantly see when WIP limit violations have occurred. If necessary, you can manually override WIP limits and track the reason.Included -
Board Health
Visual insights built into each board. Understand process impediments and understand how current performance compares to historical.Included
Collaborate with each other
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Mobile Browser Support
Stay connected with your work anytime, anywhere using LeanKit in the browser on your mobile device.Included -
@mentions
Use @mentions in the card description, comments, and blocker notes to notify team members of updates.Included -
Card Subscriptions
Subscribe to a card to receive notifications by email or RSS feed when a card is updated.Included -
Comment Threads
Manage and track communication related to a specific card using comments.Included -
Post Comments via Email
Use email to easily add a comment to a card by replying directly to an emailed notification.Included -
Board and Lane Subscriptions
Subscribe to a board or lane to receive notifications by email or RSS feed to track card activities on a board or within a particular lane.Included
Manage your data securely
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SSL Encryption
Provides industry standard private application security.Included -
Role-based Board Level Security
Control access to specific boards based on user roles and limit the actions a user can perform — such as create, edit and move cards, set and modify WIP limits, and change the board layout. Roles available are no access, user, reader, manager, and administrator.Included -
Export Board History
Get a complete audit trail of how work was completed. Historical data that tracks every change to a card, and data can be exported for further analysis.Included -
Enhanced Security Administration
Enhance your security options with the ability to set account lock policies and other granular security settings.Included -
Bulk User Administration
Easily administer the permissions of multiple users across multiple boards.Included
Integrate with other systems
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Agile Team Delivery Integrations
Connect Agile teams using different development tools to improve collaboration and accelerate value delivery across the enterprise.Included -
Business Application Integrations
Integrate Planview LeanKit with your existing business applications, including PPM, ITSM and more.Included -
Open API
Use Planview LeanKit’s open API to configure connections to other software systems like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and more.Included -
User Provisioning API
Account administrators can avoid manual user management by using our API or SCIM 1.1-compliant integration to connect with existing identity management tools.Included -
SSO
Visualize card relationships to understand and manage inter-dependencies.”Integrate with your SAML based SSO tool to support single sign-on and streamline user management.Included
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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