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Patrick Li
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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Running a project with Kanban


Now that we have seen how to run projects with Scrum, it is time to take a look at the other agile methodology JIRA Software supports—Kanban. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a much simpler methodology. Unlike Scrum, which has a backlog and requires the team to prioritize and plan their delivery in sprints, Kanban focuses purely on the execution and measurement of throughput.

In JIRA, a typical Kanban board will have the following differences compared to a Scrum board:

  • There is no backlog view. Since Kanban does not have a sprint-planning phase, your board acts as the backlog.

  • There are not active sprints. The idea behind Kanban is that you have a continuous flow of work.

  • Columns can have minimum and maximum constraints.

  • Columns will be highlighted if the constraints are violated. As shown in the following screenshot, both the Selected for Development and In Progress columns are highlighted due to constraint violation:

Creating a Kanban project

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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