If you want to get your team on the same page, Zen can help. This is because the organization of information on the board is a clear representation of a project’s status. This makes it easy to understand a project at a glance, creating a shared "mental model" among members of a team. A mental model is a representation of knowledge that is used to describe, predict, and explain behavior.

Team member often differ in their mental models due to a lack of communication and differences in attention or awareness. The problem with differences among members of a team is that shared mental models lead to better performance (Lim & Klein, 2006), so increasing shared mental models by using Zen will likely increase your team’s performance.