How to use the Kanban with WIP limits template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Kanban with WIP limits template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Kanban with WIP limits”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“When a column hits its limit, help finish something there instead of starting something new. Change a limit only after discussing it.”
Fill in each part
- Why limits What the team agreed.
- Kanban with WIP limits Columns: Ready to pull · In progress · Waiting for review · Released
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Kanban with WIP limits board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Cycle time review
Look at how long work really took from start to finish, where it waited, and what would make it flow faster.
Kanban board
To do, Doing and Done columns with task cards and a work-in-progress limit.
Sprint board
The sprint goal and facts on top, a five-column task kanban with WIP limits below.
Retrospective
Went well, to improve and action items: a calm, classic sprint retro.
Sprint planning
Sprint goal, team capacity, the ready backlog, what you commit to, and the risks.
Daily standup
One row per teammate for what moved, what’s next and blockers, plus a parking lot.