Articles
Long reads, comparisons, guides
Honest pieces about how we built Production Board, where it fits, and where it doesn't.
Deep dives + explainers
Pain points, definitions, opinions.
Production board vs project management: knowing the difference
When work is flow through stages, not a plan with deadlines.
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WIP limits, plainly: why constraining work-in-progress speeds the team up
What WIP limits do, when to set them, and the numbers that work.
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Phase durations vs estimates: a different mental model for production work
Why production teams are better off measuring the phase, not the item.
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Running a production board as a team of one
What changes when there's no team to hand off to.
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Finding your bottleneck: how to read where work is actually piling up
How to spot, name, and act on the one bottleneck your team has right now.
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Cycle time vs lead time: which one to actually optimise for
The two metrics every production team confuses, and which one actually matters when.
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Pull vs push: why kanban models pull and what changes when it does
The mental model under every kanban tool, plainly explained.
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Card ergonomics: how much information per card is too much
How to design cards that read at a glance and scale to a busy board.
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Why a spreadsheet stops working as your production tracker
The exact points a tracking spreadsheet breaks, and the fix.
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How to run a production retrospective that actually changes something
From a feelings circle to one concrete change, using the board as evidence.
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Blockers: how to make them visible and clear them fast
Why blocked work hides in plain sight, and how to surface and kill it.
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Why a 100%-busy team ships slower (utilisation vs throughput)
The queue maths behind why full utilisation slows a team down.
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Production Board vs the alternatives
Honest, side-by-side reads.
Production Board vs Notion: when do you need a board, when do you need a doc?
Generalist tool vs focused tool: where each one earns its keep.
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Production Board vs Trello
When sticky notes aren't enough.
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Production Board vs vibe-coding your own kanban
Build vs buy for production boards.
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Production Board vs Asana
Project management at scale vs focused production flow.
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Production Board vs Linear
Engineering shape vs production shape.
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Production Board vs Jira: when does the heavyweight earn its keep?
Heavyweight customization vs lightweight production flow.
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Production Board vs ClickUp: focused tool vs everything-tool
Surface area vs depth - which one fits your team?
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Production Board vs Monday.com: colourful vs tight
Different audience, different price tier, different opinions about scale.
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Production Board vs Airtable: spreadsheet-as-board vs board-as-board
Database flexibility vs production-board purpose.
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Production Board vs MeisterTask: two German kanban tools, side by side
DACH-friendly classic kanban vs production-shaped kanban.
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Round-ups + best-of guides
Where we'd send a friend.
Best lightweight productivity boards for small teams
Curated picks for two- to five-person teams.
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Best production-board tools for small German teams (2026)
Curated picks for DACH production + manufacturing teams.
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Best kanban tools for solo creators + freelancers (2026)
Curated picks for one-person production operations.
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Best production tools for creative studios (2026)
Curated picks for studios that ship the same shape of work, on repeat.
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How-to guides
Step-by-step from people who run the product.
Setting up your first production board: a five-step walkthrough
From empty board to running production in an afternoon.
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Migrating from Trello to Production Board: a clean walk-through
Trello → Production Board in five clean steps.
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Migrating from Notion to Production Board: a clean walk-through
Notion → Production Board in five steps.
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Migrating from Asana to Production Board: a focused walk-through
Asana → Production Board in five steps.
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The five-minute daily stand-up around the board
Five minutes a day, three questions, no chairs.
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Sharing a board with an external partner: how to do it without leaking what you don't mean to
External access without surprises - the share flow done right.
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How to set up swimlanes for multiple product lines on one board
Keep product lines separate without splitting into separate boards.
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How to onboard a new team member to your production board in a day
Get a new teammate reading and updating the board correctly on day one.
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How to forecast a realistic delivery date from your board (instead of guessing)
Turn your board's past cycle times into a defensible delivery forecast.
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How to design your board's columns to match how work really flows
Columns that mirror your real stages, so the board shows where work waits.
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How to clear finished work off your board without throwing away its history
Keep the board uncluttered AND keep the cycle-time history your metrics need.
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