As you get your new venture going, there isn't time nor funding to be invested in heavy task planning systems. More often than not, complex planning apps require extended training for the team or at least come with a steep learning curve. What you need is something lighter, something that all team members will get in minutes, and that will not cost an arm and a leg.
With Kanban Tool, you can organize and manage tasks with ease, assign them to team members, and track progress, all from one place. The application's interface focuses on visualizing your custom process as columns, e.g., Planned, In Progress, Done, and tasks are placed in the column that matches their status. So, it only takes a single glance to grasp the current state of each work item and the whole process.
Adopting a lightweight system allows you to focus more on your startup growth and less on day-to-day management. In Kanban Tool, your team will collaborate more efficiently and communicate better, which will shorten your cycle times and minimize waste in both time and effort. The boards are intuitive to use but have several hidden, more advanced features, for when you've perfected your process enough to be able to adopt process engines, such as recurring tasks or process automation.
A feature of Kanban that can significantly boost your team's productivity is work-in-progress limits. By limiting how many items the team process at the time, you make it possible for them to focus on the task in front. With that, they will inevitably get more items done, as opposed to just started. Single-item focus means no more multi-tasking, better work quality, and less chaos in your team's process. In Kanban Tool, you can track the performance with automatically generated metrics, such as the Lead & Cycle Time, Cumulative Flow, or Breakdown Charts. You can also time the team's work to see how long specific tasks take to complete, and analyze it globally, per job type, employee, or process stage.
Let your team members work in a more collaborative way, where access to who's doing what and what's an item's current status is available in real-time at all times. Visualizing the progress in this way simplifies communication and cooperation. Furthermore, thanks to the team having a bird' eye view of the process, they can better appreciate their roles and spot potential collaboration areas. If you want your team to work together well, they must be on the same page regarding the requirements, the process, and the status. Kanban Tool makes achieving this as easy as can be.