
	Lean/Agile work management is becoming the standard in IT - and spreading into other knowledge work. A key practice of Lean is &quot;&quot;Visualize the work&quot;&quot;. In modern factories, Kanban cards and Andan lights tell workers when to execute the next process step. Software teams have evolved the Kanban card wall: a white board with swim lanes and sticky notes. This works great by making priorities and bottlenecks obvious, but it doesn&#39;t scale, won&#39;t work for distributed teams, and doesn&#39;t capture metrics for process improvement.&nbsp;

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	LeanKit provides a &quot;&quot;Whiteboard in the Cloud.&quot;&quot; Extremely flexible, easy workflow mapping allows you to create a board in seconds. Configurable card colors and icons make critical work items jump out at the team. It&#39;s available from any web browser, so team members viewing a board in England can see the card moves of their German partners in seconds. E-mail subscriptions alert managers to activities of interest. Powerful analytics track every card move, providing insight into cycle time, process efficiency, workload distribution and other KPIs. Flexible APIs allow integration with other systems.&nbsp;

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	With LeanKit&#39;s iPad/iPhone apps, managers are able to track progress on the go. And with drill-through &quot;&quot;boards-within-boards&quot;&quot; and roll-up metrics coming this fall, executives will gain the power of Kanban on an enterprise scale.
