KanBan

Stop starting and start finishing is the idea behind KanBan from Auscomp, a tool for people whose Outlook task list keeps growing faster than it shrinks.

Outlook tasks as a board

KanBan takes the tasks already held in Outlook and shows them as neat, colour-coded cards arranged in columns on a board. Cards can be moved between columns by drag and drop, so progress is visible without reading a list line by line. The company says a user can see at a glance what their workload is.

Breaking jobs into steps

A tick-list lets each item be divided into smaller sub-tasks. Auscomp says this helps a job get done more quickly and efficiently, because a large goal becomes a set of small, checkable steps.

One central place

The tool covers tasks, goals, jobs and to-dos together, so a person does not have to keep separate lists. Everything is organised on the one board, working from the Outlook data the user already keeps.