Prototype of Kanban Tool and Preliminary Evaluation of Visualizing Method for Task Assignment

Kanban is a method used in agile software development. It is a most important tool as it acts as a central communication hub among the members of an agile development team. In this research, the authors develop a prototype of a Kanban tool. The tool displays each developer´s tasks across multiple horizontal rows. Therefore, users can assess the task assignment and workloads of team members in one glance. The board also links up with GitHub and has a feature of real time synchronization among clients for distributed development. An experiment showed that the proposed approach was effective.