Custom Card Fields30 Aug 2010

Another bunch of new features is live!
You can now customize your cards even further - hide any unneeded fields and define up to five custom ones. Those options are available on board "Settings" -> "Card Template" page:
We have also made some other minor changes:

• archived tasks are no longer counted towards last column's limit,
• improved usability of to-do lists,
• collapsed board columns now display card count and limits.

As usual, we've also made some other small improvements to make Kanban Tool even more friendly, reliable and easy to use.

Cycle and Lead Times22 Aug 2010

Over the past month we have received many inquiries regarding the measurement of cycle time with KanbanTool. It wasn't easy - you had to use Little's law to deduct it from Cumulative Flow chart.
But it's going to change now as we've added support for cycle/lead time calculations:

To-do lists for tasks9 Aug 2010

Ever missed the detailed to-do lists / subtasks for tasks? You will find them in the latest update!
From now on, you can easily define a to-do checklist for each of your tasks and track its progress:

Workflow templates and custom card types6 Jun 2010

In the latest update we have focused on two long awaited features.
From now on, you can choose from a set of workflow templates when creating new boards. What's more, you can duplicate the structure of any other boards you've created before:
A lot of people wanted to have more card types. Now you can create as many of them as you like! To make this even better, in the next week we will add a bit more card colors to choose from.

We've also made some other minor improvements to make Kanban Tool even more friendly, reliable and easy to use. If you encounter any problems with the new features or have suggestions how to make Kanban Tool better, please let us know by sending feedback..

Board tour and export to excel24 May 2010

The latest update adds a board tutorial and export to excel feature:

We have also fixed some bugs and did minor tweaks to other areas.

New release makes sharing even easier!8 May 2010

We have received a lot of questions about what are projects for and how to share Kanban Board with other people. Our initial idea was that you should group things by "projects" to which they belong and that you would only want to share "projects" and not the individual Kanban Boards.

This had caused a lot of confusion, so we've decided to simplify things a bit. To that end, we've dropped the notion of "projects" and replaced it with "folders". We hope this sounds more clear as the real purpose of projects was to group things up. What's more, you can now share any dashboard item, including Kanban Boards and Notes.

We've also made some other minor improvements to make Kanban Tool even more friendly, reliable and easy to use. If you encounter any problems with the new features or have suggestions how to make Kanban Tool better, please let us know by sending feedback.

Cool features in the latest release19 Apr 2010

An improved card view:

More filters for breakdown charts and cumulative flow:

And a new "size" field on kanban cards, which should help you get the most from kanban board analytics in case your tasks require different level of effort to complete.

Latest release - summary of features10 Apr 2010

In the latest release we have added "account" tab in main navigation. It is visible only to account owners and has lots of goodies inside:

• Account settings - view and modify your account settings (including name).
• Usage report - get quick insight into some statistics about your account.
• and probably the most exciting feature: CNAME domain alias support!
  Now you can access your Kanban Tool account directly from your own domain.

We hope you like the new features. We are constantly improving our free online Kanban tool to better meet your needs. In the next release we plan to focus on extending and improving kanban board analytics.

Latest release - summary of features28 Mar 2010

In the latest release made on Thursday we have added several useful features and improvements.
Below is a short summary of what has changed:

• You can prioritize tasks. Each card will be marked with icon to indicate it's status:
  
• You can click on a shortcut icon to get to the card comments tab, or hover mouse over it to see how many comments were made:
  
• You can track all changes with the detailed board changelog. What's more, you can subscribe to it by RSS and also view each individual task history. You can find it in kanban board Analytics.
• If you like working with Excel / Numbers, you will love the CSV export feature we have added to the archive and changelog pages.

We've also made some other minor improvements to make Kanban Tool even more friendly, reliable and easy to use. If you encounter any problems with the new features or have suggestions how to make Kanban Tool better, please let us know by sending feedback.

Welcome to Kanban Tool blog25 Mar 2010

Welcome to our brand new blog! This is a perfect moment to share some positive statistics we've gathered so far. We are very proud to say that:

• We have received tons of emails with suggestions and feedback
• 94% of our customers ideas have been accepted for implementation
• 72% of ideas and suggestions have already been implemented
• 64% of received emails started from positive words about Kanban Tool.
  (Thank you! We really appreciate it.)
• Every 2-3 weeks we try to update our online application to meet your needs.

Kanban Tool aims to be the easiest to use online tool for task and project management, both for team and personal use. We are going to use this blog to share with you the latest news, updates and tutorials. You can also find us on twitter and facebook.