General Kanban Board Examples
Kanban boards help you visualize and organize your workflow for maximum efficiency. Below, you’ll find a variety of Kanban board examples that you can use to track your in-progress work and manage your projects from start to finish.
Learn more about the Kanban method and how to create your own Kanban boards, or check out our free Kanban board templates.
Basic Kanban Board
Use this basic Kanban board to track the status of each task: to-do, in progress, in testing, or complete. Each Kanban card represents a task that needs to be completed and lists its status and the task owner.
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Agile Sprint With Kanban Board
Use this template to track the progress of work completed in a single sprint, or a fixed work period. The template breaks up a project into separate phases and allows you to set a priority level, assign story points to the task, and note how many hours you think it will take to complete the task. This template works best for projects you are already managing using Agile methodology.
Download the Agile Sprint with Kanban Board Template for Google Sheets
Kanban Board Swimlane
In Kanban, swimlanes allow you to track multiple projects on the same timeline, so you can gain insight into the status of different projects at once. Choose this option when you need visibility into the work from separate teams in a single view.
Kanban Boards by Use Case
In this section, you’ll find a variety of Kanban boards for different industries and use cases. You’ll also find examples that cater to the specifics of different types of projects and teams.
Team Project Kanban Board Example
This team project Kanban board is separated into five status columns: Not Started, In Progress, Delayed, On Hold, and Completed. Each task card includes space to note the task owner, and you can access this board in a variety of views: Timeline, Grid Table, or Calendar.
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HR Kanban Board
This HR Kanban board includes preset status columns, such as Applied, Phone Pre-Interview, On-Site Interview, and Offer Sent, Offer Declined, Offer Accepted. Each card includes space to list the candidates, as well as details such as location and the job they are applying for.
Lean Kanban Board
Use this Lean Kanban board to avoid overproduction and shortages. The board includes columns for various stages, such as To-Do, Plan, Develop, Test, Launch, and Completed. This format allows you to identify and fix problems before deployment.
SAFe Kanban Board
You can use Kanban boards at every level in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to manage workflow. This SAFe Kanban board separates the workflow into To-Do, Assessment, Implementing, Re-Assessment, Production, Launch, and Done columns.
Engineering Kanban Board
This Kanban board is ideal for managing engineering projects. It includes columns for To-Do, Development, Development Completed, Testing, Testing Completed, Deployment, and Done. The board helps teams visualize what tasks need to get done during the development and testing phases as they complete the work.
Accounting Kanban Board
This accounting Kanban board separates the accounting process into distinct stages, including Invoices Received, Sent, Under Review, Reviewed, Paid, Received, and Receipt Sent. There are also individual lanes for billing and purchasing so you can keep the invoices for each process separate.
Manufacturing Kanban Board
This manufacturing Kanban board separates each manufactured product into lanes based on stage and uses columns to delineate every step of the manufacturing process for the product. You can use this type of board to track the status of any manufacturing project or product.
Download the Manufacturing Kanban Board Template for PowerPoint
Sales Pipeline Kanban Board
This sales pipeline Kanban board separates the sales timeline into the following phases: Potential Deals, Touch Base, Request for Info (RFI), Presentation, Contract Needed, Completed, and Declined. Each card specifies the company or client, the amount of money a client is potentially going to spend, and the person assigned to each client.
Download the Sales Pipeline Kanban Board Template for PowerPoint
IT Kanban Board Examples
In this section, you’ll find a variety of Kanban boards for use in IT scenarios such as operations, support, and DevOps.
IT Operations Kanban Board
This IT operations Kanban board includes swimlanes that reflect common workflow stages in IT operations, such as maintenance, production issues, unplanned issues, and planned activities.
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IT Development Operations Kanban Board
This IT development operations Kanban board separates the development operations workflow into the following categories: New Project, Development, Assessment, and Closed. Use it to track the operations side of any dev project.
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IT Support Kanban Board
This Kanban board is intended to track IT operations. It separates the workflow into Investigate, Implement, Test, and Completed categories, and the individual Kanban cards address maintenance, live issues, monitoring, and other projects.
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Marketing Kanban Board Examples
In this section, you’ll find a variety of Kanban boards for use in IT scenarios such as operations, support, and DevOps.
Marketing Content Kanban Board
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This marketing content Kanban board starts with ideas for content, then flows through the standard marketing content stages, including Assigned, Concept, Concept Approval, In Progress, Content Approval, and Done.
Marketing Social Media Kanban Board
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This Kanban board is intended for teams that need to monitor the progress of social media marketing content. The board separates each social media content type into lanes, such as Instagram, YouTube, and X/Twitter. Each lane is divided into the following stages: Research, Concept, Review, Execute, Final Review, and Live.
Marketing Campaign Kanban Board
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This marketing team Kanban board includes swimlanes to track marketing campaigns, deliverables, and events. Each lane is customized to chart progress for that specific area. For example, with events, progress is divided into Ideation, Schedule, Prepare, Execute, Post Event, and Completed sections. For deliverables, the lane is divided into Tasks, In Progress, Review, and Completed categories.
Product Management Kanban Board Examples
Product Execution Kanban Board
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This product execution Kanban board separates each project into swimlanes that you can move around based on priority. For each lane, you can visualize smaller tasks within the larger project and move them into To-Do, Doing, and Done columns.
Product Release Kanban Board
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This product release Kanban board separates all products into two columns: Ready for Release and Released. Creating distinct “waiting room” and “completed” piles for your product allows you to quickly track what is and isn’t live.
Product Backlog Kanban Board
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This product backlog Kanban board separates all backlog tasks into New, To Be Assigned, Assigned, and Priority columns. The first two columns are grouped within a larger In Progress section, and the last two are grouped in a Planned section.
Product Roadmap Kanban Board
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This product development Kanban board separates teams into rows for work assigned to the web team, mobile team, product team, and marketing team. It then color-codes the tasks into separate goals, such as Improve Performance, Internal Improvement, and Security Optimization.
Software Development Kanban Board
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This software development Kanban board separates a software development project into the following phases: To-Do, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Ready, and Launch. These sections ensure that the development is detailed and thorough so that no mistakes or bugs make it through.
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