Purpose

Continuously improve the way to deliver results efficiently.

Vision

For individuals, teams and organizations, who seek to achieve results fast and efficiently, the Kanban Zone is an online Kanban platform with professional services that ensures all the benefits from Kanban, Lean and Agile. Unlike basic todo lists like Trello, or bloated tools like Jira, Asana, Wrike and many more. Our solution provides full transparency and collaboration by connecting every process and work item across your organization.

Mission

We are Kanban and Agile experts seeking better ways to share, teach and implement new ways of working in all environments, not just manufacturing for Kanban and software for Agile.

We focus on increasing results, reducing cost and improving customer satisfaction. Our online Kanban tool and templates provide everything you need to significantly improve the way you work, communicate and GET WORK DONE!

Our customers are result oriented individuals, teams, families, groups, or organization seeking to achieve specific goals and follow their dreams.

We provide the most effective online Kanban tool on the market, with the most advanced Kanban board editor and specialized templates to help you get started.

Culture

Result oriented – We provide clarity for what you are seeking to achieve.

Effective – We are experts at producing the desired result.

Measurable – The only way to track meaningful progress is to measure your key criteria for success.

Simple – We embrace simplicity because it improves communication and understanding to achieve result faster.

Visual – The single act of visualizing something increases the chance of getting it accomplished, this is why we visualize everything we do.

Better – As a Kanban principle we believe in continuous improvement as the way to always find a better way to improve people, processes and products.

Happy – We love ice cream and the words from Ben & Jerry’s “If it’s not fun, why do it“. If you love what you do, then you can be happy doing it.

The Core Team

We started as Agile coaches who were seeking the best online Kanban tool for our clients… Since we couldn’t find it, we decided to build it and keep improving it. We are a team of passionate people, who use Kanban to get work done and delight our customers. Our creative leaders have a strict focus to keep everything simple and lean to bring you the best experience in Kanban Zone. We would love to hear from you, so don’t hesitate to contact us.

Dimitri Ponomareff
Product (Co-Founder)

Kristen Varona, Kanban Coach at Kanban Zone

Kristen Varona
Architecture (Co-Founder)

Vladislav Pavlov
Engineering

Jorge Varona
Cloud

Chloé Rodd
UI/UX Design

Fike Komala
Marketing

April Ray
SEO

Christine Joy Leal
Social Media

Maria Elena Boiser
Content

Fadi Ghali
Webmaster

WHY is Kanban Zone the ultimate process efficiency solution?

Whether your goal is to run a marathon, increase your department’s sales, organize your kid’s soccer team, develop a new product, plan a charity gala or run day-to-day operations for your home or business, Kanban Zone is the solution. Our product allows you to visually track your goals, break them into smaller steps and execute each step without ever feeling overwhelmed.

Prioritize and delegate work
Eliminate wasteful activities
Collaborate in real time with anyone in the world
Increase efficiency and productivity through visualizing your work

To learn more about our Why, we also created this blog Why 2 Agile Coaches Built a Kanban Tool to share our journey as Agile coaches that caused us to create Kanban Zone.

Lastly, we often get the question about how is Kanban Zone different than Trello… Well, you can learn why in our comparison of Trello vs Kanban Zone. Ultimately Trello is a to-do list tool and there is nothing wrong with that, but if you want all the benefits of Kanban, then use Kanban Zone.

WHAT is Kanban Zone?

Kanban is a Japanese concept that can be translated into “signboard” or “billboard”. It was first introduced in the manufacturing industry but is now being used in every industry and market as well as for personal goals and tasks. Kanban is cards that flow through columns on a board until completion.
With Kanban Zone, we’ve made it simple to create and run your own Kanban boards:

Get started fast by leveraging our Kanban board templates
Learn about Kanban with short tutorials that help you get up-to-speed quickly
Engage our Kanban coaches to help you become a Kanban master

Learn more about Kanban from our blog posts and especially this one: Kanban explained in 100 words to improve both your business and personal life.

HOW does Kanban Zone work to help me get better at achieving my goals?

Kanban Zone embraces the Kanban philosophy that has been a significant part of Toyota’s success. Our team has been transforming organizations around the world for over a decade to benefit from Kanban. Here is how simple it is to use Kanban Zone:
With Kanban Zone, we’ve made it simple to create and run your own Kanban boards:

Create or leverage one of our board templates
Add a few Kanban cards to your board
Invite people to collaborate on your board
Start flowing cards through the board

While Kanban Zone is extremely intuitive, we provide step-by-step tutorials under our help area. We also provide online resources to help anyone learn about the Kanban philosophy. Lastly we have a team of Kanban coaches who provide the right level of support to help you, your team or your organization take full advantage of Kanban.