Kanban: Swimlanes - what is it?

The Kanban software was developed to simplify the work in the team and to optimize processes. This is to achieve a better overview and communication basis, so that efficiency and effectiveness are increased. Here we explain what it is about Swimlanes.

This is Kanban Swimlanes

Swimlanes in Kanban are designed to ensure that you keep track of a large number of projects on the boards. They offer you not only a better overview, but also show up more structured. Thereby Swimlanes are horizontal or vertical lines, which structure the board additionally. You can create these individually, although certain specifications are particularly suitable for this.

• Structure the swimlanes in Kanban, for example, by priority and divide them into top, medium and no priority. So you can see which tasks are next and in which you can still leave some time.
• Also the set deadlines can be structured better, where you can use here, for example, the subdivision into important and urgent, important but not so urgent and not important but urgent and neither important nor urgent. So gehen Ihnen keinerlei Fristen unter und Sie können alle nach Plan korrekt einhalten.
• Gleichzeitig ist auch eine Unterteilung in Zuständigkeitsbereiche möglich, wodurch Sie erkennen können, ob Sie bei dem jeweiligen Projekt nun am Zug sind oder ob ein anderes Teammitglied vorab bestimmte Aufgaben zu erledigen hat.