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Kanban Board

Kanban Board with Drag and
Drop Task Management

Custom Kanban boards: configurable columns, drag-and-drop status changes, board reordering, card previews, and live updates.

Kanban Board
How it works

From a blank board to your team's live workflow in four steps

Set up TARO's Kanban once and it runs itself: drag a card, the column updates status, the team sees it.

1

Configure

Build the board around how your team actually works

Create, rename, reorder, and delete columns to match your process, from a three-column board to a seven-stage QA pipeline. Each column maps to a task status, so dragging a card into a column updates that status automatically.

2

Cards

Every card shows the full picture without opening the task

Each card previews what your team needs at a glance priority, assignee, due date, checklist progress, tag, and subtask count all on the card surface without clicking in. The card is the summary; the task detail is one click away when you need it.

3

Drag

Drag a card across. Status updates instantly.

Drag a card to a new column and three things happen at once: the task's status updates to match, the change is logged to activity history with user and timestamp, and Pusher pushes it to every board live.

4

Real time

Every teammate's board stays in sync automatically

TARO uses Pusher WebSockets to push every board event card moved, added, edited, or column reordered to every connected browser the instant it happens. The standup opens with a board that's already current. No stale cards, no missed overnight moves.

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Why TARO Kanban

Six reasons teams never go back

Once your standup board shows every teammate's card movements from the last 24 hours in real time, a static board nobody trusts feels absurd.

Columns that match your process not a template

Columns that match your process not a template

Add, rename, reorder, and delete columns to build the board your team actually uses. A three-column board and a seven-stage QA pipeline are both valid.

One drag updates status, history, and the team

One drag updates status, history, and the team

Dragging a card is a status update, a history log entry, and a real time push to every teammate's board all in one gesture. The board is the interface; the drag is the action.

Cards that show context without opening the task

Cards that show context without opening the task

Priority, assignee, due date, checklist progress, tags, and subtask count all sit on the card. The board shows what's in review and who owns it, no click.

Real time updates no refresh, no sync

Real time updates no refresh, no sync

Pusher WebSockets push every board event to every connected browser instantly. When a developer moves a card at 2pm, teammates see it move at 2pm not at the next standup.

WIP limits flag column overloads visually

WIP limits flag column overloads visually

Set a WIP limit on any column and TARO highlights it when exceeded. The bottleneck shows on the board itself, no separate analytics view to find it.

Board reordering changes the column sequence for everyone

Board reordering changes the column sequence for everyone

Drag columns to reorder the board. The new order saves immediately and shows on every teammate's view, a board-level change, not a personal preference.

Who uses it
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800+

product teams

Built for every team that touches pipeline

Engineering leads, product managers, and scrum masters use TARO's Kanban board as the shared layer for active work. The board is the standup, the drag is the update, and real-time sync keeps it current.

0ms

Update lag for teammates

1

Drag to update status

50+

Custom columns per board

100%

Moves logged to history

Engineering Teams

The standup board shows what actually happened not what people remember.

Open the Kanban board at standup and the real-time activity feed shows every card movement since the last sync. No one reports what they did the board shows it. Standup shifts to handling what's blocked or at risk.

More from TARO

Kanban is just one view

The same task data on your Kanban board renders in five other views, with TARO's AI intelligence running beneath all of them.

Task Management

The same tasks in List view with inline editing, bulk actions, sorting, filtering, and 12+ fields as table columns. Switch from board to list in one click.

Sprint & Agile

Run the full sprint lifecycle, planning, burndown, AI workload balancing, and completion prediction, with the Kanban board as the primary delivery view.

Bottleneck Analysis

TARO reads your Kanban column WIP counts and flags overloaded stages, single points of failure, and broken handoffs with prescribed fixes for each.

Auto Prioritization

TARO ranks the tasks feeding your backlog by due date, dependencies, and strategic impact, so the most important work rises to top.

Questions & answers

Everything you need to know about TARO's Kanban Board

Common questions from engineering leads, PMs, and scrum masters evaluating TARO's board.

Each Kanban column maps to one of TARO's seven task statuses: To Do, In Progress, In Review, On Hold, Completed, Cancelled, and Pending Approval. You assign a status when creating a column, and dragging a card into it updates the task's status so board and detail stay in sync. Multiple columns can map to the same status for sub-stages (e.g. Backend Review and Design Review both as In Review). The mapped status is what analytics and AI read.
TARO uses Pusher WebSockets to push board events to every connected client in real time. When a teammate drags a card, the backend processes the status update and publishes an event on the project's board channel. Every connected browser re-renders the affected card in its new position, no polling, no refresh. Latency is sub-second. Events pushed include: card moved, created, deleted, edited inline, column added or reordered, and WIP alerts.
Cards display six fields without any click: priority badge (colour-coded Low / Medium / High / Urgent), assignee avatar (or multiple for multi-assignee tasks), due date with overdue colouring, checklist progress count (e.g. 3/5), subtask count, and custom tags. The title is always shown. At the board level you can show or hide specific fields. Clicking a card opens the full task detail in a side drawer without leaving the board.
Yes. Every column has an optional WIP (Work in Progress) limit you set as a number. When the card count reaches the limit, the header turns amber; when it exceeds the limit, the header turns red and an overflow flag appears, visible to everyone with no separate view. WIP limits are soft warnings, not hard blocks, you can still drag a card into an overloaded column, but the overload is impossible to miss. Also detected by Bottleneck Analysis.
Yes. Column reordering is a board-level change, not a personal view preference. Dragging columns to a new order saves to the board configuration and pushes to every teammate's view via WebSocket, so everyone sees the new order immediately. This is intentional: a Kanban board is a shared artifact, and a column order only you can see defeats the purpose. For a personal view, TARO's Custom Tabs in List view save filter and grouping combos.
Yes. Each project has its own Kanban board, and you can have as many projects as your workspace needs. Boards are independent: different column configurations, WIP limits, and task sets. Within a project there is one board shared by all members. If your team runs separate workflows, frontend, backend, QA, each can be its own project with its own board. Admins can view a cross-project dashboard showing active card counts per stage.
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