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Kanabn Board is a tool that is used to depict the position of work in the process. As the question mentions itself, Kanban boards were primarily done for work allocation, monitoring the progress, decision making and reporting (at the end of the day). The most common usage of these boards were found in the daily huddles / daily team meetings / stand up meeting (what ever you might want to call it). It is mostly done on a white board where columns are created to track progress. These days there are multiple online versions of Kanban boards (but the joy of doing it is using post it notes or a marker pen on a white board - the good old way). The selection of manual or a systemic Kanban board is of lesser significance. What is more important is to track the progress. The simplest of Kanban board looks like Source: Google Images (smartsheet.com) Source: Google Images The best feature about the Kanban board is how it has evolved across various industries and domains and how it is being utilized these days. The underlying feature of allocating work, tracking progress and decision making remain the same. 1. Kanban Board in Agile Software Development / Project Management Source: Google Images search 2. Kanban Board in sales Source: Google Images search 3. Kanban Board in Hiring Source: Google Images search 4. Kanban Board in Incident Management Source: Google Images search 5. Kanban Board in aviation (flight progress strips) Source: Google Images search Automated version of flight progress strips Source: Google Images search 6. Kanban Board in Food Ordering Source: Google Images search You notice that there are multiple variations of Kanban board (manual or systemic) with all trying to help the business and/or customer know the progress of their product/service through the various process stages. A more advanced or recent variation of Kanban board is a Swimlane Kanban Board where additional characteristics could also be tracked. Source: Google Images search

Kanban boards, kanban cards has evolved in different ways in different industries. 1. Open source kanban board- Used for managing daily tasks of your own or for the team. You can use all sorts of tags, comments, member assigning etc. 2. Online kanban boards- Practicing LSS , managing all work thro' tablets, smartphones, helps in managing task real-time 3. Agile Kanban boards- Helps teams to accept incremental changes, visually tracking the progress of the activity, backlog etc. 4.Excel Kanban board- Tracking of activity in any project has been used in the basic Excel sheets just by naming the columns and activities planned and status against each. 5. Kanban Bin- 2 bin/3 bin kanban board for monitoring inventory, the method of pulling on box from supplier end and replenishing the first box by th time 2nd box gets consumed. 6. physical kanban board- The physical kanban cards/placards are placed and maintained. Based on the pull the production is done.