Kanban Toolkit A board for the whole team

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An open-source
Kanban board for teams

Manage day-to-day work and see how it contributes to larger initiatives. Where the work waits — and why — is on the card. Leaders get a current view of progress without a separate status report.

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The Kanban Toolkit board: larger initiatives across the top and the team's own columns below, with the cards that make them up.
See your team's work and how it contributes to larger initiatives, side by side.
A split column: its cells side by side, each with the name the team gave it, its card count, and the cards inside.
Shape the board around the way your team actually works, with limits that keep work moving.
The leadership view: three initiatives under their stage headings, each with its progress and the work beneath it.
Leaders see progress from the work itself, as it happens.
A card open in its panel, showing its parent, its history and the work it depends on.
See which work is waiting on something else, and what is affected.

For the whole team

Your team gets the detail. Leaders see how it adds up.

The board is the team's own workspace. Leaders read the same work at a higher level, so nothing has to be written twice.

For the team

Work the way your team does

Split a column into the steps your team actually uses, and set a sensible limit on how much work is in flight. The leadership view still reads correctly.

  • Find and open anything in a few keystrokes
  • Clear signals when work is blocked or waiting
  • Limits that keep work moving instead of piling up

For leaders

Progress without chasing updates

Progress, time in each stage and risk come from the work itself.

  • A clear read on what is on track and what needs attention
  • See which teams are waiting on work from others
  • See how long work takes without asking people to log hours

Friction, made visible. Four things a card can tell you about why it is not moving — read from the card, not from a dashboard somebody has to keep up to date.

  • still 17dHow long it has sat in this column, counted from its own moves.
  • blockedThe reason is written on the card, in the column where it sits.
  • waiting onThe work it depends on, named — here or on another team's board.
  • unownedCommitted work with nobody's name on it, said where the work is.

Private by default

Private, dependable and ready when you are

Run it on your own machine or server. Nothing leaves it unless you say so.

Your work stays yours

Changes save as you make them and reach the board in the order they were made, so everybody reads the same copy. You can export everything whenever you want.

No ads or analytics

No third-party scripts, no tracking, and nothing used to train anything.

Run it yourself

Start on a laptop, a private server or your own cloud. No complicated setup and no external database to manage.

See how to run it

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The details

What makes Kanban Toolkit different

Three things that set Kanban Toolkit apart, each with the page that backs it up.

  • Progress you can trust. Leaders see the same work the team does, as it happens. How it works.
  • No lock-in. Export everything at any time, in a format you can open elsewhere. How to export.
  • Open source. Read it, change it, and run it on your own terms. Read the licence.

FAQ

Straightforward answers

Do I need an account to try it?

No. The demo is a complete board with example work already in it. Accounts are optional and only matter when you run your own copy.

What if two of us edit the same card?

The person editing holds the card while they work, so the other sees it is held. A change made from a copy that has moved on is not applied over the newer one — you are shown the newer one.

Do you train AI on our work?

No. Nothing is collected or used to train anything, and your work never leaves your copy.

How do we run it ourselves and keep it safe?

It comes with simple instructions for running it on your own machine or server. Everything is kept in one file you can copy or download whenever you like. See how to run it.

Set up your team's board in minutes.

One place for your work. No ads or analytics. Free and open source.

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