Overview

Kendis Kanban offers enterprise-grade Kanban boards tailored for Agile and SAFe environments. It enables seamless real‑time planning, execution, and visualization of workflows across teams, programs, and portfolios. With customizable boards, hierarchical interlinked views, and direct mapping to program boards, Kendis ensures full traceability from strategy to delivery. It integrates bi-directionally with Jira and Azure DevOps to maintain consistency and visibility throughout the workflow.

Features and Capabilities

• **Customizable Workflow Design: **Fully customizable Kanban columns and sub‑columns, enabling teams to map workflow steps to ALM statuses or create independent flows.
• **Hierarchical & Interlinked Boards: **Allows linking team-level and program-level boards, offering traceability from features to execution across levels.
• **Direct Mapping to Program Boards: **Columns can be mapped directly to program boards for automatic handoffs when items are ready for development or execution.
• **WIP Limits & Flow Control: **Configurable Work‑in‑Progress limits to prevent bottlenecks and maintain smooth flow across teams and stages.
• **Multi-Dimensional Mapping: **Advanced mapping capabilities introduced in 2025 allow complex workflows to be visualized through multi-dimensional Kanban views.
• **ALM Integration (Jira / Azure DevOps): **Two‑way real‑time synchronization with Jira Cloud, Jira Server/DC, and Azure DevOps ensures data consistency and seamless collaboration.
• **Pre-PI Planning Support: **Specialized Kanban workflows support backlog readiness, feature refinement, and dependency tracking prior to PI Planning.
• **Org Views & Roadmaps: **Roadmap and timeline views linked directly to board items provide strategic visibility and planning across quarterly or annual timeframes.
• **Analytics & Smart Reporting: **Dashboards, flow metrics (lead time, cycle time), scope change reports, dependencies and risk analytics for program and PI tracking.