Yamazumi Workload Balancing

Yamazumi Chart
Excel template

After test driving 4 competing Yamazumi Chart templates, we realized that not one of them was functionally fit for its intended purpose. So we created one.

The purposes of a
Yamazumi Board

Any stacked bar chart will satisfy the first purpose...

1) to visually depict the sub-tasks of a process

* how tasks are divided between workers

* which tasks are value add, obvious waste, or somewhere in between

but we couldn't find any tool that could gracefully handle the second (more important) purpose...

2) to easily rearrange tasks

* to eliminate waste

* to improve process flow

* to balance workloads between workers or teams

So we decided to create a yamazumi template that actually works.

It allows you to (very) easily:

* insert rows for unlimited workers or teams

* insert rows for unlimited work elements

* identify value add vs. non value add
   (using a dropdown list)

* easily rearrange tasks

* click a button to refresh the chart

Learn more.

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Download a free trial, and try it for yourself.

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