A project team is transitioning to agile delivery. The team uses a Kanban board to track progress. In the daily meetings, the team members have been reporting good progress. However, the cards on…

The discrepancy between reported "good progress" and stagnant cards suggests a lack of clarity or a different understanding of what constitutes progress or completion. Asking team members to include completion dates on their cards makes the definition of "progress" more concrete and visible, enabling the team to identify why items are getting stuck and where the actual bottlenecks are, thereby fostering transparency and accountability.

While self-organization is key, simply reminding the team of accountability without providing tools or adjustments to improve visibility and understanding of progress is not an actionable first step to resolve the specific issue.

Canceling daily meetings would remove a key agile mechanism for synchronization and issue identification, making it harder to address the lack of card movement.

Indicating low performers is a punitive approach that is contrary to the collaborative and supportive spirit of agile; it focuses on blame rather than problem-solving and process improvement.