# Kanban board

> A visual workflow in which cards move through named stages and work in progress can be limited.

## What it means

Lanes for stages, cards for work, and limits on work in progress, illustrated with a clearly fictional example; where it came from . Kanban vs a to-do list vs a Gantt chart.

## A practical example

A post moves from Idea to Drafting to Review to Scheduled, while a limit prevents ten drafts from starting together.

## Put it into practice

- Name the concrete situation before applying the label. Kanban board is useful only when it changes a choice, boundary or next action.
- Make the state visible: write the owner, time, source or stopping condition down instead of relying on memory.
- Review what happened. Keep the part that reduced ambiguity and change the part that added ceremony without helping the work.

## How it relates to Plexii

a Table’s Kanban view turns a Single select column into lanes, with an Unassigned lane first (/help/table-views).