KanBo Hierarchy
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Overview
KanBo is a work coordination platform with a structured organisational model consisting of workspaces, spaces and cards, designed to improve the organisation’s workflow. This hierarchical model aims to streamline work coordination, improve task visibility, and enhance project management through a well-organized enterprise framework.
Users can be assigned to each of the above elements with roles appropriate to their position. KanBo features are tailored to the needs of users at each position in the company.
KanBo Platform
The KanBo environment you use contains the work of the entire enterprise. It is a huge platform made up of elements that reflect the structural units of your company. Thanks to the hierarchical system, you see only the part of the company’s resources that concerns you.
KanBo users can be assigned administrative KanBo Roles, such as Adding Users or Global Settings.
Workspaces
The function of workspaces as the broadest containers, separating different areas of work within an organization, such as different teams or clients, is to provide a clear overview of the organizational structure. It contains spaces and organizes them in one place, making it easy to navigate and collaborate.
Workspace owners can decide who can access and view the workspace, providing control over privacy and team participation. The tools that make this possible are workspace types and three levels of access to workspaces: owner, member, and visitor.
Spaces
The primary areas where actual work processes occur are spaces. They exist within the workspaces. Spaces typically represent projects or specific areas of focus and facilitate collaboration in a digital environment.
Spaces encapsulate cards, which are the basic KanBo units representing tasks or goals. Cards can be arranged in a highly customizable way with different space views such as Kanban, Gantt Chart, or Mind Map.
Spaces are built upon card statuses to visually represent workflow and allow users to manage, track, and even predict the work progress.
The hierarchy is also reflected in spaces, where there are three roles with different levels of access to the space: owner, member and visitor. This three-level division of space users allows you to regulate their permissions.
There are three space types: standard, private, and shared. They differ in their accessibility settings. Space can either be visible to selected users or publicly accessible in the workspace.
Cards
The most fundamental units of KanBo are cards, serving as representations of tasks or other items that need to be tracked and managed. They contain essential information such as notes, files, comments, and to-do lists. Their flexible structure allows them to be adapted to any situation.
They can be assigned to specific space users, promoting clear accountability and making it easier to manage and complete tasks. There are two types of card users: responsible person and co-worker.
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