Kanban Flow Battlecards

The board is overhead. Your line The board earns its keep only if it changes what we unblock, finish, or pull today. Defending the tool instead of the decision it supports. It makes Kanban accountable to flow outcomes. Push or pull? Pull is the default in a managed flow system. What does an aging card ask? Is this still valuable, blocked, too large, or missing a decision? Aging is a flow signal, not a status embarrassment. Urgent work should bypass WIP limits. It can, but let us name what gets delayed and record the exception. Pretending urgency has no tradeoff.…

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