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Kanban is a method for developing software products and processes with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the software developers. **Please note:** This is exclusively for programming questions; methodology questions should be directed to Software Engineering SE, and project management questions should go to Project Management SE.

Kanban is a method for developing software products and processes with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the software developers. In this approach, the process, from definition of a task to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see and developers pull work from a queue.

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A completely free agile software process tool

I know slightly close questions have been asked before but this question is a bit different. We are a start-up company with a very limited budget and we are looking for a completely free Agile software development process tool without any limitation…
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Best Kanban Tools

What tools for managing Kanban would you recommend?
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How do the Agile, Lean and Kanban methodologies relate?

I'm basically familiar with Agile methodology and Scrum. But what is "Lean Software Development" and "Kanban"? Is it safe to say that Scrum, Lean and Kanban are implementations of Agile methodology? Or are Lean and Kanban different methodologies?…
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Kanban/Scrum Boards

I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your…
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How can you create a board in Azure DevOps?

I ran into this problem and solved it, so this Q&A is here just in case somebody else spent time on sifting through Microsoft's docs trying to find this answer. How do you create a new board in Azure DevOps? When I go to the boards > board and look…
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How to stop Lean programming becoming Cowboy Coding?

My team has been progressively adopting more and more lightweight methodologies, moving from Scrum to Lean/Kanban where there is less and less formal process. At some point we will be back to Cowboy Coding; indeed I fear we may already be on the…
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Resolving tasks in VSTS / VSO (Agile Template)

I have created a new project in VSTS (Visual Studio Online) using the Agile Template. I have created a sprint, and added a user-story. Within the user-story I have some tasks. On the sprint Kanban board there are 4 columns; New Active…
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kanban scrumish tool(s) to get started

After investigating a little bit scrum and kanban, I finally read this answer and decided to start using kanban, picking something from scrum (note that I'm working mostly by myself, and I do have read this question and its answers). Now, my…
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Kanban board plug-in for Trac

Is there any plug-in/app for presenting/managing tickets from Trac bug tracking system on Kanban board? For example, I want to be able to change the status of Trac tickets by dragging-dropping them accross the board. I tried some standalone tools…
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Is anyone using Kanban?

Is anyone using Kanban (or scrumban) for the agile management practices? What is your experience with Kanban? How does it work in large complex environments with dependencies on waterfall projects?
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How to release often with Lean/Kanban?

I am quite new to Lean/Kanban, but have poured over online resources over the last few weeks and have come up with a question that I haven't found a good answer for. Lean/Kanban seems otherwise such a good fit for our company, who is already using…
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Scrum, Kanban or Other for 4 person dev team

We have a four person development team that is in need of a formalized project management system. I have a general understanding of Scrum and Kanban but it's hard to truly understand until it's been tried. We don't have the luxury of trying one…
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Git working strategy - many features, very frequent releases

here's the description of my everyday work: Two developers working in many small features or fixes, let's say 3-4 per day for each developer. I need to be able to work on features A - B - C at the same time, while my coworker works on feature D and…
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How Can I customize the Tag Color in Azure Board?

I want to customize the Tag Colors for my team. And I found the description in the following places in the article of learn.microsoft.com Customize cards But when I open my settings, I do not have a menu point called Tag Colors: Some of the menu…
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Access the Kanban Column (a Team-Specific Field) for a Work Item

Is there a way to programmatically access the "Kanban Column" for a WorkItem using the TFS 2012 API? Using the Scrum 2.2 template, the history of a Bug or Product Backlog Item shows "[MyProject\MyTeam] Kanban Column" as a changed field whenever a…
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