How Kanban Customization Helps TV Media Management Processes (feat. DHTMLX Kanban)
In today’s fast-paced, data-driven environment, organizations need highly adaptable tools that allow them to manage and visualize vast amounts of information in real-time. For industries like TV media, where managing studio facilities and broadcasting processes is critical, flexibility, scalability, and intuitive interfaces are essential. That’s when implementing Kanban can be a perfect solution.
By visualizing workflows and identifying bottlenecks, Kanban methodology helps teams to optimize their processes and improve efficiency. Especially when used as a software tool in a project management system, it fosters better communication and collaboration, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and working towards common goals. For example, each user can add or remove functions that are necessary for the successful completion of the objectives. That was one of the key reasons our client had when they asked us to enhance the software solution used by their company.
Examples of Kanban Customization by Adding Custom Parameters
Using a Kanban JavaScript component is universal for any team if a business wants to have better control over the assignments and real-time updates. Before diving into the real-life example, let’s look at some of the other cases we had experience to deal with while implementing DHTMLX Kanban JS.
Situation 1
Suppose your team needs more information about each task that is specific to that team and specific to the current project. In this case, you can add custom parameters to task cards, such as priority, deadline, responsible employee, and completion status.
To do this, just use the built-in methods and settings of DHTMLX Kanban. You can also create new fields in the configuration file and define their behavior depending on the state of the assignment. This allows you to track the progress more accurately and make the necessary adjustments in a timely manner.
Situation 2
Imagine your team is working on a new product development project. You need to consider many factors, such as due dates, resources available for the project, and task priorities.
In this situation, DHTMLX Kanban JS can be a good choice for including custom fields to display the information you need on the board. This can include various fields required by the user to determine (ex. the stage of product development, assigning responsibility for each objective, and tracking the risks associated with completing them). This way, you can create a more transparent and manageable development process that will meet the unique requirements of your project.
Situation 3
Another example of DHTMLX Kanban customization is embedding custom labels and filters. For example, if your team is working on several projects at the same time, it is relevant to add labels that indicate that the task belongs to a specific project. This will allow you to easily filter assignments by project and allocate resources more efficiently. You can also set up filters to search by various criteria, such as deadline, priority, or responsible employee. This makes task management much easier and allows the team to focus on the most important and urgent objectives.
The Challenge: Managing Complex Data in a Dynamic Environment
Now, let’s get back to the project we worked on.
For a customer in the TV media industry, managing various studio facilities and broadcasting elements involves coordinating multiple data streams, keeping track of resources, and ensuring that everything runs smoothly. The product in question required an integrated solution that could help engineers to visualize, manage, and interact with real-time data on multiple devices, including mobile phones, laptops, and desktops. However, the real challenge was to create a system that not only displayed data but also allowed users to customize their experience dynamically, as the nature of the work requires frequent changes to how information is visualized.
The solution needed to:
- Provide a clear and intuitive way to organize and visualize complex data;
- Enable users to configure their own Kanban board to show specific information relevant to their workflows;
- Allow the integration of custom fields and entities directly into the board’s layout, without affecting the backend;
- Be easily configurable, allowing TV engineers to make adjustments as needed.
DHTMLX Kanban JavaScript component proved to be the ideal choice for this project because it offers robust features that support dynamic customization, user-friendly interfaces, and seamless integration.
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Why DHTMLX Kanban Was Chosen
1. Customizability at Its Core
The core reason DHTMLX Kanban was chosen for this project is its out-of-the-box flexibility. The TV media customer needed the ability to modify the Kanban board’s configuration dynamically — something that DHTMLX Kanban JS excels at. With this solution, our developers were able to include custom fields and entities to the board at the column level, which provided the ability to display common labels and data in a way that fits the specific requirements.
For example, TV engineers could configure the JavaScript Kanban board to display…
