Unfortunately I am asked for having an electronically version for my colleagues on the other side of the ocean, and I realize its a little bit easer to let a tool track the cycle time. I was simply to lazy or whatsoever to track over several weeks consistently the cycle times for all the stuff we delivered.
The combatants
So, I am looking for a tool and there are actually quite a lot of candidates. The most promising ones are:
- agilezen.com
- leankitkanban.com
- kanbanery.com
- kanbantool.com
- homebrew solution based on Google docs + Google charts
What are my requirements?
Must have's are
Nice to have would be:
Must have's are
- items of different type, visualized with a specific color for every item
- drag-nd-drop
- Charts for Cycle Time
- CFD = cumulative flow diagram
- API access to move items programmatically, and maybe to create some
Nice to have would be:
- marking blocked items
- tracking of the total time of items being blocked
- change the history of an item (in case of missing updates)
- iPad client with online editing
- iPad client with offline editing
