Kan’t ban
Injecting Agile into Group Projects (part 4)
The Kanban board can be a terrific Agile tool for managing group tasks. Unfortunately, many student projects are ill suited to group work. Sometimes they cannot be easily broken down into discrete tasks or, when they are, take more effort to complete than if done by a single person. Or dependencies are so strong that one task can hold up everything else until it has been completed, causing backlogs. In such cases, even a Kanban board can’t help.
I believe that an assignment must include a balance of the following key elements to be considered a legitimate group project: