Electronic versus physical boards

Should I use an electronic or physical Kanban board? Many teams choose to have either an electronic or a physical board. So which one should you choose? Here are the benefits of having an electronic board:

  • No matter where you are you can always see the status and follow the progress
  • This type of board works well for distributed teams
  • It's possible to get reports
  • It's possible to link to or contain more information on a note

There are several products for an electronic Kanban board. Here are a few of them:

  • Pivotal tracker
  • Jira Agile (former known as Jira+GreenHopper)
  • Agile Zen
  • Lean Kit
  • Trello
  • Target process
  • Rally
  • Web whiteboard

The last one, Web whiteboard, is the odd one in the list since it's just a painting area, just like ...

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