Steve Kane — Accountability Through Visual Management

The Action Board is the cen­ter of a dai­ly stand-up meet­ing and is used to dri­ve action and account­abil­i­ty. It is a cal­en­dar based sys­tem that includes a review of dai­ly met­rics, prob­lem state­ments and tasks due. The board fos­ters col­lab­o­ra­tion, own­er­ship and team work while help­ing reduce task com­ple­tion times. It also illus­trates the work­load of each mem­ber of the team, which dri­ves allo­ca­tion of resources and assists with set­ting pri­or­i­ties. The sys­tem is sim­ple and works with or with­out a spec­i­fied leader.