Quick guidelines for anyone working in a Washington State government agency who is planning on using Kerika: what you can use Kerika for, what sort of data you can store in Kerika, and how you can get help!

1. Using Kerika for Washington State Government work
What is Kerika?
Kerika is work management for distributed, Lean and Agile teams. It combines task management, team
collaboration, chat and document management, all inside the browser.
What can I use Kerika for?
• Personal task management: use Kerika to manage your workload; your manager and coworkers will
have a real-time view of what you are working on, and what’s queued up across the team.
• Lean Government initiatives: use Kerika to adopt Kanban and Kaizen (Continuous Improvement); the
Templates feature can help you capture and refine your team’s workflows and best practices.
• Agile Software Development: Kerika’s Scrum Boards make it really easy to transition from a
traditional Waterfall model to the Agile/Scrum methodology, so you can get more done, for less.
Kerika should be suitable for most projects involving Category 1 and Category 2 data; just remember to
store your finished documents in your system of record – typically your agency’s SharePoint servers.
(And if you are not sure, you can easily get clarification about the state’s guidelines for online file storage
from Michael DeAngelo at the Office of the CIO.)
How do I get started?
• You need Internet Explorer 9 (or later), Chrome, Safari or Firefox, and a Google ID: make sure you
use a separate Google ID, not a personal Google ID or a personal Gmail account.
• You can easily set up a new Google ID that maps to your existing wa.gov email ID, without having to
switch to Google Apps or use Gmail: see http://kerika.com/account-setup for instructions.
• Once you have your Google ID ready, go to Kerika.com and click on the Get started button on the
home page and you will be up and running in seconds. There is no software to install or configure:
you can use Kerika anywhere you have a browser – at work, at home, or on the road.
What will this cost?
• Kerika Accounts that have fewer than 5 people working on projects are free; if your projects involve
more than 5 people, you can get a flexible monthly subscription at $7 per user, per month.
And remember: you can do a simple direct procurement for amounts that are less than $10,000.
• If you are unsure whether Kerika will work for you, ask for a free trial: contact info@kerika.com
• You don’t need to get the premium version of Google Apps: Kerika will work with the free version.
Resources
• General help: There are a number of tutorial videos at www.YouTube.com/Kerika, and you can also
get help by emailing info@kerika.com. Kerika offers free training to state government users.
• Lean Government: the Results Washington Team is a central resource for agencies interested in
adopting the Lean methodology; contact Darrell Damron.
• Agile Software Development: the Office of the CIO is a central resource for agency IT teams
interested in adopting Scrum; contact Michael DeAngelo.
• Cloud and SaaS policies: the Office of the CIO can help you understand current state policy and
guidelines with respect to cloud-based software-as-a-service, including tools like Kerika.
Learn more at Kerika.com