# Kanban

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**Kanban** is a technique for managing a software development process in a highly efficient way. Kanban underpins Toyota's "just-in-time" (JIT) production system. Although producing software is a creative activity and therefore different to mass-producing cars, the underlying mechanism for managing the production line can still be applied.
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![Kanban board](https://softserveke.firebaseapp.com/assets/img/kanban_board.1605a0fc.jpg)

### Three rules of Kanban

* Kan – visualize, Ban – board
* WIP (Work In Progress) limiting
* Maximizing efficiency/flow (minimizing lean time - time from the begging of task to the end)
