Visualizing Kanban work: Towards an individual contributor view

Kanban is an agile and lean process methodology that is growing in use across a number of domains, including software development. While the use of the process methodology has been growing, the ability to track team member contributions when using Kanban has been noted as a gap in the methodology. This research starts to address this gap by creating a prototype application that visualizes the contribution of individual team members within the Kanban team. The visualizations are then evaluated via a case study. Initial results suggest that the visualizations, which show the tasks done by week for each team member, were helpful in understand team member participation and that they were easy to understand and use.