Electronic versus physical boards

Should I use an electronic or physical Kanban board? Many teams choose to have either an electronic or a physical board. So which one should you choose? Here are the benefits of having an electronic board:

• No matter where you are you can always see the status and follow the progress

• This type of board works well for distributed teams

• It's possible to get reports

• It's possible to link to or contain more information on a note

There are several products for an electronic Kanban board. Here are a few of them:

• Pivotal tracker

• Jira Agile (former known as Jira+GreenHopper)

• Agile Zen

• Lean Kit

• Trello

• Target process

• Rally

• Web whiteboard

The last one, Web whiteboard, is the odd one in the list since it's just a painting area, just like a physical whiteboard and just like the physical version it has a lot of freedom and is easy to change.

Here are some benefits of using a physical whiteboard:

• The size improves visibility and helps you "see" the bottlenecks

• Easy to customize however...