Control the chaos with Kanban
- Manage tasks and track progress using Kanban Boards that are tailored to how your business operates
- Set up your “To do,” “Doing” and “Done” lists or create lists to match your processes
- Visualize projects progress across tasks
- Automations for setting progress, start/end timers and dates, assigning tags, and archiving
- Control access by making Boards personal, public or invite-only
- Drill down on the details of each board with advanced filtering
Cards, the ultimate taskmaster
- Clearly establish task details, deadlines, ownership, and required effort
- Monitor progress effortlessly through clear status indicators
- Track work efforts using project time estimates and integrated Timelog feature
- Manage approvals for streamlined workflows.
- Keep files organized and readily accessible with incorporated content management
- Utilize built-in Checklists to establish standardized processes
Collaboration is better when everything’s in the same place
- Initiate discussions within Posts to exchange feedback and collaborate in-context
- Communicate in real-time by using @mentions to notify team members
- Share relevant files, like documents, PDFs, images, and videos, for more effective collaboration
- Request approvals for specific tasks or deliverables utilizing the customizable approval feature
The view is yours—Boards, Lists and Gantt
- Gain a clear overview of project timelines for better project management
- Identify task dependencies to allocate resources effectively and prevent bottlenecks
- Establish task priorities by setting predecessors for accurate scheduling
- Drag timelines to extend or shorten schedules to accommodate project timelines
Boards App Features
- Add @-mentions to send Notifications to individuals or groups right in the Appward sidebar.
- Liking messages in Posts with a single click of the thumbs-up icon and it will automatically trigger a Notification to the person who authored the post, letting them know you saw their note.
- Attach documents, images, media and AppShare direct deep links to any record to and from any Appward app.
- Enlarge any attached document, image or media by double-clicking the file.
- Edit your message by clicking on the pencil icon if you need to modify or update your note.
- Authors of each message posted can delete their own comments.
- Use built-in timer to log time spent working on a task
- Start, Pause and Stop buttons for automatic time stamps of dates and times
- List view of each time a team member has logged time working on a card
- Quickly see a complete total of hours, minutes and seconds spent
- A dynamic progress bar visually displays the percentage of completion for each board
- Track progress of each card task with it’s own progress bar
- “To Do Lists” are linked to progress bars and auto adjust the percentage of completion
- Progress bars auto-scale as checks are marked off on associated checklists
- Set up automations for each list within your board to trigger updates automatically
- Establish certain actions to take place when a card within a board is moved to and from lists.
- Types of actions you can set:
- Set progress percentages as a card moves from board to board
- Set start and end dates to auto update
- Auto-populate tags that align with status, department or any other identifier to help easily filter through cards
- Auto-assign team members to a card when it’s moved between boards
- Set a timeline for when a card should be archived
- Auto-update the color of a card’s header to stay organized visually
- Trigger time log timers to start, stop and pause
- Select from contacts to assign one or multiple people to a task card.
- Stay in communication with those assigned to a card through Posts
- Know how much time each assigned person spends on an action item in Timelog
- Manage a schedule within a card to ensure assignees are completing action items and meeting deadlines
- Receive notifications when you follow a board and select when you would like to be notified based on action taken
- Notifications are automatically sent once you select assignees to a card
- At-mention a team member or all members associated with a card for instant notifications to their workspace
- Send notifications to all who are included in the approval process
- Take and log notes directly in a card to keep information in context
- Organize notes within folders for quick navigation
- Use HTML editor to format notes and highlight key information accordingly
- Create notes with the drawing tool for quick visual concept of ideas
- Deleted notes are auto-stored in a Deleted Items folder for retrieval if needed
- Manage all files associated with each card without having to look through various locations to gather necessary information
- Store documents, images or other media-rich files that are affiliated with a card task
- Select and upload files directly from your computer and store them within the boards app record file
- Access the Appward cloud file explorer and select files from organizational, personal and public folders
- Link files from Appward’s Document system via Documents
- Edit and change files after uploading
- Download files directly to your computer
- Use arrow keys to organize files
- Popout file into its own window to view it at scale
- Select from contacts who will be part of your approval process
- Title your approvals accordingly so the approver knows what they are approving
- Set approval date deadlines
- Send notifications to approvers to remind them of any upcoming approval timelines
- Approvers can add comments to whether they approve or reject an action item
- View status of whether an approval is pending, approved or rejected
- Reset an approvers status when a task needs to be reviewed again
- Create a standardized checklist in Checklist Creator to link to a particular card task
- Within Checklist Creator, you can:
- Create and edit specific responsibilities for each check
- Set checks with direct requirements
- Link steps that attach to other Appward Apps like Projects, Inspections, Audits, Actions and others
- Link one or more checklists to a card
- Track the progress of tasks being checked off a checklist with a visual progress bar
- Generate checklists reports for easy review and sharing
- Use the ‘To Do’ List column in the Details Tab to create on the fly checklists
- Work efforts progress dynamically adjusts to display percentage of completion based on ‘To Do’ list checklist
- Visualize when tasks are being worked in a Gantt Chart
- Determine the order in which tasks need to be completed
- Identify any dependencies between tasks and mark them accordingly
- Allocate resources based on task and timeline
- Set predecessors to help prioritize tasks
- Mark what needs to be completed before another task can start
- Update the start and end dates of the tasks
- Use the quick-adjust feature to shift tasks and allocate resources as needed
- Monitor the progress of a task and make adjustments as necessary
- Create tags that align with your business, project or task
- Use tags to filter and quickly find what you are looking for
- Follow a board to be notified of any actions taken
- Notifications are triggered based on any or all of the following criteria:
- When a card is completed
- When progress has been updated
- When a card is moved between lists
- When a new card has been added to a board
Simplify workflows and effortlessly visualize, prioritize, and manage tasks to boost productivity.