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What Is Kanban Tool?

Kanban Tool is a visual project management application for workflow optimization and real-time team collaboration. It helps to analyze and improve your processes, thereby increasing business efficiency. It's easy to use, widely customizable and fast. Available in cloud or on premise.
It's the workflow management tool of choice for companies that want a no-nonsense, effective platform, using which requires no training.

Who Uses Kanban Tool?

Kanban Tool powers more than 25,000 small and large businesses from every industry, worldwide.

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Reviews of Kanban Tool

Average score

Overall
4.8
Ease of Use
4.8
Customer Service
4.7
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.7

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
76%
4
24%
Marianela
Marianela
Water Treatment Consultant in Panama
Verified LinkedIn User
Chemicals, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Kanban Tool, a fully adaptive tool for the execution of agile projects.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Kanban Tool has unlimited use to maintain order and structure in practically all the activities that we can plan in an organization, what we do with the Kanban Tool and with a whiteboard depends on our imagination and how we like to work. The tool faithfully meets the objectives and is an excellent support to achieve a transparent and successful execution, in addition to not only maintaining control with our work team but also keeping our clients informed about the progress.

Pros:

Definitely, by using a board in Kanban Tool, we can considerably increase our productivity in the execution of projects and streamline our work team. In addition, by using the time estimation reports and graphs offered by the platform, we can monitor the performance of our staff and generate graphs that allow us to continuously improve our work process, without having to wait until the end to know exactly the efficiency. . individual or group.Another great feature is that we can make our team work in small groups, combined with team members from different departments and achieve more dynamic results without clutter, since the contributions of all people are based on well-defined tasks, with estimates of time and total visualization by the entire work team.

Cons:

Kanban Tool has become a tool for daily use for the execution of projects that require the participation of technical personnel, also for software development, completing tasks in a project, providing services and much more. However, I think that for large projects, we should invest time to correctly plan our boards and not design them with too many cards. I particularly prefer to separate the project into stages and design a dashboard for each one of them, and in this way I can more easily manage the activities and not generate views with too much information.

David
David
Candidate in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

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5.0 10 months ago

Comments: My overall experience with Kanban has been excellent. I would definitely recommend.

Pros:

I love how simple and easy it is to set up and use. I think the AI integration is seamless and helpful. I also think it's wonderful how many of their features they don't hide behind a paywall and yet there is still great benefit to the paid version.

Cons:

The visuals are a bit simplistic. I would love it to be a bit more streamlined.

Péter
Consultant in Hungary
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great, reliable, user friendly product

5.0 last month New

Comments: Fast, reliable and easy to use, easy to customize, overall very user friendly. I really liked that it's more about function than aesthetics (even though I really love the way it looks, it maybe is just not for everyone)

Pros:

Ease of use and ease of transfer from task managment apps, very nice customization features, you can make it look the way you can really overview all the tasks for work. I really like the power-ups, add-ons that make it easier to work on and keep track of tasks.

Cons:

You can't choose which swimlane or column is the 'Completed' section of the table. This way, I get some negative due dates on tasks, even though I put it to the Completed swimlane, but since I can't make that section the finished tasks section, I have to manually delete the due date.

Soumalya
Engineer in US
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Kanban Board

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: Better than Leankit board or other project management tools on licensing and management perspective

Pros:

Organized way of managing cards dedicated board and proper lanes More controlled way of Moving cards More scalability to add subtasks and metrics

Cons:

Its not very intuitive in designing Should be more user centric on access level

Max
Max
Advisor in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Defense & Space, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Perfect Match of Capability and Efficiency

5.0 4 months ago

Comments: I have found the Kanban Tool effective enough to build our business (and personal) process steps around it's natural capabilities so that our teams can work on multiple boards with the proper access protections. The single-sign on capability makes it easy to ensure authentication and convenient log-in. Having full control over columns, swimlanes, card types and card templates makes each board unique in how it addresses the need of that board. The Power-Ups are also really nice optional elements that add capability with full control for each board independently.

Pros:

I've been a user of Kanban Tool for many years now. It was initially selected to support a high school competitive robotics team, but it quickly became my recommendation for my personal and corporate Kanban needs. The standout capability that I like over competing tools (such as MS Planner) is the convenience of taking a tasking email sent to me and forwarding it to a specific board with optional identifiers for swimlane, column, card type, assigned user, priority, and due date. This ensures that no task sent by email ever gets lost and is positioned to be processed immediately. It also allows me to use Siri to create tickets throughout my day.

Cons:

There's nothing that I would change about the Kanban Tool.