Visualize Work

• valuable for self-organization and pull-systems
• system must be accessible to everyone affected
• analog: post-its on a wall, or index cards, magnets and white board
• digital: Trello, Kanbanize, Leankit, Miro, Jira, Google Sheets, etc.

Things to track:

• types of work items (e.g. customer request, project tasks, reporting tasks, rework)
• start date (and due date if necessary)
• priorities
• stages of work (e.g. “to do”, “in progress”, “review” and “done”)
• impediments/blocks
• who is working on which items
• agreements and expectations guiding workflow (e.g. definition of done, policy, quality standards)
• use colors, symbols, highlights etc.