Ask HN: How do you avoid Kanban boards becoming "to-do list graveyards"?

Bender 3 minutes ago [–]

Item limits in lanes, automatic escalation when an item sits stagnant, re-prioritization, management approval or efforts to move things back into a queue, encouraging engineers and developers to manage realistic expectations and manage their queues as well as communication with people waiting on these tasks. Cross-team meetings and displaying the lanes in meetings and getting updates. Those last bits may or may not work depending on the culture and discipline of organizations and the overall company.