Setting up our Kanban board

Last week one of my clients and I set up a Kanban board for the team. We did it as a physical board, and we're backing each card with an issue in a tracker.

We plan to use the issue tracker for these purposes:

• generate a Cumulative Flow Diagram (perhaps scripting an export to CSV or Excel)
• searchable index of activity
• release management tracking
• conversation (comments, emails, checkins) for details larger than a notecard
  

Here's what the board looks like:
Some details (that are hard to read):

• A Prioritized Queue on the left, highest priority on top
• Three workflow/VSM steps: InProgress, Review, Deployment
• Review is for developer peer review, and Staging (on QA for general review)
• Deployment Ready is available for production deployment, Deployed is recently deployed.
• Three swimlanes: two for development activities, one for IT operations support.
  

This is the current prototype for the cards:
Some of the tools that we use include sticky post-it notes and Stikky Clips. (Note: We found the Stikky Clips at a teacher supply store, not a big office supply store.)