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Jim Pappas

December 15, 2024 Source: Financesonline.com

We've been using SwiftKanban for over a year in my organization. We are an IT organization and we use SwiftKanban for both Dev and Ops side of the organization.

We evaluated 5 different tools when we started on our Kanban journey. We finally settled on SwiftKanban because of its following benefits -

1. Powerful metrics and reports - we found SwiftKanban to have the best metrics that we wanted to use as part of our Kanban implementation. Not only did they have the best set of basic Kanban metrics such as the CFD, Cycle Time and Throughput charts - but also other great charts such as the Cycle Time Distribution, Control Chart and Blocking Analysis. They have now added even more metrics - including Flow Efficiency and the Adjacency Matrix - which we love!

2. Several features to support the Daily Standup, the Weekly Replenishment and our Monthly Retrospective meetings. These features include Card Aging, The "What Changed" feature, and the Calendar views - besides of course the Board Playback that allows us to see how our board played out for any review period!

3. Card Hierarchy - they have the most flexible card hierarchy feature that allows us to model intra- and inter-board hierarchy for different types of boards. We have set up program and application/ project level boards for this. Great representation of the hierarchy as well as rollup of progress information.

4. Excel Import/ Export - This took some time to get used to - but we truly appreciate the capability here - helped us move data in initially - as well as help us move data between apps. We are now looking to buy SwiftSync for real-time integration with JIRA and TFS that we use.

4. Overall power of configuration and yet the ease of use. While there is a lot of horsepower to the tool, it is still reasonably easy to set up and use. Their SmartLanes swim-lanes capability is the best I have seen across any Kanban tools.

On the cons - it can be a bit overwhelming at the start - since there is so much to the tool - they could do better with some better initial user help and videos. But they have outstanding support and hand-holding - and a great response time on support - that really helped us in the initial weeks of usage of SwiftKanban.

Overall, I strongly recommend this tool as one of the - if not THE - best enterprise Kanban tools.

Neeraja V

December 30, 2021 Source: G2.com

"Userstories Activity Log Tracking for our Lean Software Development with SwiftKanban"

What do you like best about SwiftKanban?

SwiftKanban assists me with managing my Kanban cards through its splendid visualization board. It gives me clear visibility about my work items, summary, assignment status, point of contact, deadline, etc for my sprint cycle. Also, I can generate my Kanban cards using its card templates feature, thus avoiding duplication of efforts, rework time, and managing workflow, which has recurring tasks.

What do you dislike about SwiftKanban?

Backlog provides me ideas on our future roadmaps and sprint plannings and serves as a brilliant entry point of task items in our workflow. We modify them depending on their priority and our team's functionalities. Setting the highest importance to any of the task items is easy and straightforward, thanks to SwiftKanban Dashboard. It gives a great retrospective of our service delivery history, so nothing is worth mentioning when it comes to disliking the usage of SwiftKanban.

What problems is SwiftKanban solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project roadmaps are essential aspects that we keep track of as they are the most critical artifact in our organization. SwiftKanban provides features in which we can easily understand the probabilistic of our delivery estimates, defines flexible roadmaps within discrete limitations, and actively helps in monitoring if everything is on track and what is still left to be done. It accelerates our Lean Software Development action items through its excellent visual workflow model, and its activity log helps me track each user stories effectively.

Rose W

May 21, 2019 Source: G2.com

"Very beautiful interface"

What do you like best about SwiftKanban?

Swift Kanban is simple to use and it has a very interactive interface that enables users to interact with the system

What do you dislike about SwiftKanban?

When checking on backlog, there are numerous functionalities that can be confusing to someone who has not had prior training.

Recommendations to others considering SwiftKanban:

This is a great piece of software that will be of great use to any organization. consider it in your evaluation

What problems is SwiftKanban solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to make good use of the system for a number of functions such including content management

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