When the board is grouped by person, each board member gets a column. Board members are chosen deliberately rather than being everyone in the organisation — forty columns is not a board.

Who to include

• People who actually carry projects.
• Not everyone who might occasionally help on one — they can still be contributors.
• Keep it to a number of columns that fits on a screen.

What it is good for

Grouped by person, the board answers the question a manager actually has: is the work spread sensibly? One column stacked while another is empty is visible in a second, and it is the conversation worth having at a weekly catch-up.

Keeping it current

Update the list when people join or leave the team. A column for somebody who left is a column of projects nobody is doing — which is exactly the thing the board exists to show you.