The Kanban process-management approach establishes inventory levels at different stages in manufacturing, standardizes batch sizes and signals production/delivery of a new shipment only as a previous shipment is consumed. However, users viewing Kanban charts whilst able to view tasks by different stages within a process have little comprehension of the timing associated with the tasks individually or as a sequence nor of resource workload and availability. Accordingly, a planning and resource tool allowing disparate project planning methodologies to be combined would allow a user to view not only their tasks within a graphical user interface providing comparable features to the user friendly KanBan format but also to allow them to rapidly visualize the inter-relationship of their tasks with the overall process. Such a tool would allow for quick visual identification of issues relating to their and others workload and availability.
