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Hello.

In order to make a proper management following the Kanban Framework it is necessary to distinguish, for each state, which jobs are under development and which, in that state, are finished waiting to be moved to the next state.

This is the way the Framework helps to change from a push management, where each team sends work to the next without knowing its capacity (and therefore generating bottlenecks, bottlenecks and bottlenecks) to a pull management where each team manages its own capacity allowing to find the bottlenecks in order to address them and thus improve the performance of the entire flow.

Thus, the proposal is that each state in the dashboard can have a ‘Doing’ and a ‘Done’ sub-column. Jobs that are in progress will be in ‘Doing’ and those that are finished for that state will be moved to the ‘Done’ sub-column.

Hi.

The Kanban framework needs the limitation of WIP in order to be applied so that teams can achieve amazing results.

The WIP limit sets the maximum number of cards a Column or Lane can have. This is how the workflow is managed.

There are 2 ways to implement it, the first one is that if the limit has already been reached, it does not allow to add another card. The second is that if the limit is exceeded, the column is marked with an eye-catching background or in some other way to indicate that the limit has been exceeded.

It would be the same for the lanes.

Also, if a column is subdivided into ‘Doing’ and ‘Done’, ideally the WIP limit should be at the global column level and affect all the cards between the 2 sub-columns.

In Kanban Framework and in most tools what you call ‘lane’ in the Dashboard view is called ‘column’. This change may achieve a smoother adoption of your tool for new people. In addition, it will facilitate communication between people using Smartsheet and those familiar with the Framework or Kanban boards.

i'd like this too!

This is exactly what is needed! Thanks!

This is a very important feature to have! We need horizontal swimlanes!

Hi @Roxie1155 -- I'm curious if by 'grid' you mean that you'd want the capability to add row and column titles like in my screen capture.

( I don't work for Smartsheet. I've just been figuring out how the card view can help me with my use cases. I saw your post and would like to know more.)

Thanks,

Marc

I love the card view to be able to work my items needed for each project I am managing however I would like to see the card view in grid form. I have some projects that are moving faster than others. I need to be able to have them in a grid to keep up with the pace of each project.

Something similar to the attached sc

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YESS I've been strugglign with this too!

Great suggestion!