KanbanYou Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All

Kris Schroeder

WHO WE ARE

Juan Flores

AGENDA

Kanban Basics

Individual Exercise: Create your own board!

Team Exercise: What do you see?

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How to get the most from your board4

Tips for Kanban Success5

Key Principles of Kanban

• Visualize

• Limit Work in Progress

• Manage Flow

Kanban Board

• Easy for a group of people to simultaneously move things around

• Easy to discuss the state of the work

• Easy way for the stakeholders to visualize the state of the work being performed

• Limit WIP • Manage the Flow

To Do Doing Done

A way for teams to visualize their workflow

Metrics

Throughput

The rate at which the process produces

complete items

Lead Time

The time from which a customer makes a request

to when s/he receives it

Cycle Time

The time from which the team

begins work until its complete

Create your own board!

ACTIVITY #1

• What are you working on at home?

Backlog Items

HouseholdPull WeedsMulch Fertilize

HobbiesResearch Best SellersBuy Fishing License Select new TV Series to watch on Netflix

MaintenanceSchedule physical Make dentist appointmentService Car

VacationResearch DestinationBook FlightReserve Rental Car

To Do - everything you are planning on doing

Doing – everything you have in progress

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3 Done – everything you have completed

Create Your Own Kanban Board

What do you see?

ACTIVITY #2

What Do You See?

Backlog In Progress DoneTo Do

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What Do You See?

Backlog DoneTo Do In Progress

WIP: 1

What Do You See?

Backlog DoneTo Do In ProgressDevelop Validate

In Progress

What Do You See?

Backlog DoneTo Do Develop Validate

WIP: 13 WIP: 2

What Do You See?

Backlog DoneTo Do Develop Validate In ProdSchedule for

Release

WIP: 9

What Do You See?

Backlog DoneTo Do Develop Validate In Prod

= Expedite

How to get the most from your board?

ACTIVITY #3

Using the Board to Forecast

To Do Doing Done

6 days

8 days

9 days

10 days

7 days

ThroughputCycle TimeLead Time

22 days

12 days

18 days

12 days

15 days

5 tasks in 30 days(6 days + 8 days + 9 days + 10 days + 7 days) / 5 = 8 days(22 days + 12 days + 18 days + 12 days + 15 days ) / 5 = 15.8 daysAverage = 8 daysAverage =15.8 days

CYCLE TIME

LEAD TIME

Using the board with the team

Backlog DoneTo Do Develop Validate In ProdSchedule for

Release

Tips for Success

• Get started and keep it simple

• Set WIP Limits and Exit Agreements

• Define and track your metrics

• Inspect and adapt

• Stop starting and START FINISHING!

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

• David J. Anderson

Personal Kanban

• Tonianne DeMaria Barry

• Jim Benson

Kanban in Action

• Marcus Hammarberg

• Joakim Sunden

Insight Presentation

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