Lean Startup Kanban Boards

By chris.hefley on April 26, 2010 — 1 Comment

In a blog post today on agilefocus.com, William Pietri outlines his approach to tracking experimental work through the value stream of a Lean Startup. Being a “Lean Startup” ourselves (though we don’t really think of ourselves as a “startup”…but close enough), I found this line of thought intriguing. So, I decided to take a crack at modeling William’s proprosed kanban board layout using LeanKit Kanban. Here are a couple of examples of ways that this “experiments” flow could be modeled, based on the drawings in William’s blog post. (click on each image to view larger size).

Separate backlogs for features/experiments, and parallel workflows. Showing 'released' on the board itself.

A slightly different take, with 'released' moved into the archive (not shown).