Kanban

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Give cards, notes, tokens, or running state a labelled place on the page.

A preset of zones. Attribution: After Toyota's kanban; boards for knowledge work are traditional. Licence: idea; no restriction.

Variants

• default

Data fields

The fields a spec's page can set for this component (see switchback show kanban --json):

• zones
• columns

Grounding

Helps: when work moves through stages and seeing what is in progress matters more than the plan; the preset adds no claim beyond the zones

Backfires: when "doing" fills up without a limit, or moving cards across the board replaces finishing them

• CItems placed inside the same bounded region are perceived as belonging together, even against other grouping cues, so labelled zones make category membership readable at a glance.Wagemans et al. (2012)

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