Tag Archives: Kanban

About Kanban. See also Lean.

An improvement to our Views function

January 8, 2019Agile & Scrum, Kanban & Lean, UsabilityKanban, Scrum, Task Board, Task Management, Teams, Usability, ViewsKerika

We just updated Kerika today, and along with the usual bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes stuff we have made an improvement to the way Views are shown on your Home Page:

Some of our users have dozens of boards in active use at the same time, with large (and sometimes overlapping) teams, and as a result their Views counts are nearly always high.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the Home page now shows two counts for each View:

The total number of items that match for that View, and
The number of items that match that are assigned to you.

This makes it easier to see if you need to go back to a View to catch up on something that’s directly related to you, i.e. is assigned to you.

Exporting cards from Task Boards and Scrum Boards

January 8, 2019Agile & Scrum, TutorialsExport, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, TutorialKerika

Another day, another updated tutorial video… This one is on exporting data from your Kerika Task Boards and Scrum Boards.

https://youtu.be/lGHa5RuaTf8

Getting a lot done: using Kerika at scale

January 4, 2019Agile & Scrum, TutorialsKanban, Scrum, Task Board, Teams, Tutorial, Views, WorkflowKerika

And yet another tutorial video, part of our ongoing effort to create a bunch of learning materials for new users! This one is about getting a lot done, which means using Kerika for large scale projects.

Kerika’s Highlights feature help you zoom in on what really matters, even when you are working on a Task Board or Scrum Board board with hundreds of cards.

And Kerika’s Views feature helps you stay on top of things no matter how many projects you have underway at any time.

Here’s a quick tutorial video on how to get the most out of Kerika’s Highlights and Views:

https://youtu.be/d6aELCpxdRg

Tasks and Due Dates in Kerika

January 2, 2019Agile & Scrum, TutorialsCalendar, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, Teams, Tutorial, WorkflowKerika

A new tutorial video, part of our ongoing effort to create short learning opportunities for our new users, each focusing on one aspect of using Kerika.

This one is all about getting stuff done: scheduling and managing your work, using Kerika’s Task Boards and Scrum Boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5sZ2R3eoQg

How Chat works in Kerika: a new tutorial video

December 27, 2018Agile & Scrum, TutorialsChat, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, Teams, Tutorialuser

How Chat works in Kerika: a new tutorial video that shows how Kerika’s chat is the smarter alternative to email for distributed teams.

The latest in our series of updated tutorial videos for new users :-)

https://youtu.be/FVSAN8PRMc0

We are offering free Academic Accounts to users at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

December 27, 2018Academic & Nonprofit, Agile & ScrumAccount, Education, Kanban, Kerika, Scrum, Task Board, Teamsuser

Following a request from a student at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, we have decided to add UOC to the list of universities and schools where users automatically get free Academic Accounts.

A free Academic Account is intended to help students and educators get more done with their teams: a free Account has all the features of Kerika, but is limited to a maximum of 10 Team Members working on boards owned by that Account.

Every user can set up their own Account, so effectively it is possible for a very large group of students and educators to use Kerika free for their academic work!

If you are interested in getting Kerika for your (nonprofit) school or college, please get in touch!

Teams and Privacy in Kerika: a new tutorial video

December 18, 2018Agile & Scrum, TutorialsAccount, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, Teams, TutorialKerika

And another video in our revamped tutorial series: how you can manage your teams and privacy in Kerika.

https://youtu.be/k6-3f1Nlhh4

We hope these tutorials are useful; let us know what you think.

A tutorial video on using Kerika with Box

December 13, 2018Agile & Scrum, TutorialsAccount, Box, Document Management, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, Teams, Tutorialuser

OK, another tutorial video done: this time on how to use Kerika with Box.

Kerika works seamlessly with Box for secure storage of all your project files: just sign up as a Kerika user with your Box ID, and all your Kerika files will be stored in your own Box Account, where they will always be under your control.

This tutorial video shows you how.

Intended audience for this video: new Kerika users who want to leverage Box.

An updated set of tutorial videos is coming

December 13, 2018Agile & Scrum, TutorialsAccount, Google Apps, Kanban, Kerika, Scrum, Task Board, Task Management, TutorialKerika

We are (finally!) getting around to updating the Kerika tutorial videos; what we have on our YouTube channel has definitely gotten stale.

Here’s the first in the new series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McoUZ5vFvcA

This video is intended for new users: people who discover Kerika and sign up to start new accounts.

For people who sign up by clicking on an invitation email sent from a coworker, we have a different video that is more focused around their needs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8FI10PT-Y

And, finally, for people who sign up to use Kerika with Google Apps — and this is the vast majority of Kerika users, worldwide — we have this video:

https://youtu.be/QW7I3IrEfd8

There’s a lot more coming.

Bug, fixed: making sure your Daily Task Summary gets sent at 6AM

December 5, 2018Agile & Scrum, Bug FixesBug, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, WorkflowKerika

We recently found and fixed an odd bug related to the optional 6AM Daily Task Summary email that you can get from Kerika: if you had toggled the preference setting for this email — from ON to OFF, and back to ON again — the email was getting sent at 8AM instead of 6AM.

Daily Task Reminder (click for larger image)

Essentially a coding mistake on our part, and one we didn’t notice (and none of our users noticed, either) for a long time because no one would try changing this preference setting very often.

The bug’s been fixed.

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