The Kanban Board
The Kanban Board technique is a visual depiction of work when it has various stages of development. The Board has two main properties: Cards and Lists. Using these two properties to your advantage will allow you to know exactly what you need to do, what you are doing now, and what has been done in a visually simple way!
Kanban Board Lists are used as columns for the cards to reside in, they are supposed to represent a flow from left to right for your development process. Depending on your workflow the name of your lists can change, but in most cases on the right side there is a done pool, so then the users can visually see all the work that has been done. It gives the team a visual reinforcement that when you finish a card it can go into the Done list. For lists before hand it's up to your imagination, for our Trello Template we have the following lists:
According to the Salem Press Encyclopedia , "Kanban is a management and process improvement method for regulating supplies, inventory, and product development and manufacturing. It is a demand-based process that relies on visual cues to help workers know what is needed, when it is needed, and how much is needed."
Kanban Board Cards are to represent the tasks you have to do. In each card you can have a description on what the task is and then you can use identifiers to represent priorities, assignees, or whatever you need for your workflow. Many people in the software development community make physical kanban boards using sticky notes and a large white board. The engineers use the sticky notes as cards and write descriptions on them, they also can use different color sticky notes to denote priority or who the task is assigned to. Go to this for more details on how Trello Cards work