Kanban the Hard Way

Kanban the hard way Mike Burrows (@asplake) mike@djaa.com Kanban the Hard Way http://positiveincline.com September 2012

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012What do we see?

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012We see work items

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012We see variety

We see work items organised by need Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012What does this work item need?

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012What do these need?

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012And this one?

Work items organised by need,arranged in a left-to-right progression Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

We see also some secondary organisation Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012What do we see?

What don’t we see?How are people organised? Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban works with your organisation …and on it Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban the Hard Way September 2012It lives! It moves!

Simple rules combine to give us the behaviour we desire Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Your process can evolve faster and more safely than you may realise Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Every limit, every policy is a leverage point Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

A Little Queuing Theory Work in ProgressAverage Cycle Time = Throughput John LittleWhere: how long it takes one item to Cycle Time (CT) = Kanban the Hard Way go through the system September 2012Work in Progress (WIP) how many items are in = the system at any time how many items are Throughput (TH) = produced per unit of time

Theory and practice meet in a CFD120100 On hold Proposed 80 Prioritised Ready for Dev Dev 60 Testing Ready for Kanban the Hard Way Release 40 Released Implemented September 2012 20 0

We face a continual battle Uneven flow  Waiting Over-burdened  Rework people Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

We can put even the waste to good use! Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban works with your process …and on it Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

“The work will teach you how to do it” (Estonian proverb) Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

How we wish change worked There Kanban the Hard Way September 2012Here

What change really feels like: Virginia Satir’s J Curve Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Evolutionary change with many small J’sIncreasing “fitness” Kanban the Hard Way Increasing capability for change September 2012

Decades of experience in these small J’s of “safe to fail” experiments SPC: Shewhart, Deming TPS: Ohno, Shook, Rother TOC: Goldratt Lean: Womack & Jones, Liker, Reinertsen Six Sigma: Motorola, GE Systems Thinking: Kanban the Hard Way Deming, Ackoff, Gall, Meadows, Senge September 2012 Complexity Science: Snowden Beyond Budgeting: Bogsnes, Hope & Fraser Agile, XP, etc: Beck, Cockburn, Jeffries et al Lean Startup: Ries

Decades of experience in these small J’s of “safe to fail” experiments Plan - Do - Check – Act Check - Plan - Do Look - Ask - Model - Discuss - Act Define - Measure - Analyse - Kanban the Hard Way Improve - Control September 2012 Build - Measure – Learn TOC’s 5 Focusing Steps, POOGI

Foundational principles that make evolutionary change possible1. Start with what you do now2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change3. Initially, respect current roles, Kanban the Hard Way responsibilities & job titles September 20124. Encourage acts of leadership at all levels in your organization – from individual contributor to senior management

Understanding Agreement Respect Kanban the Hard Way September 2012 Leadership

Core practices that stimulate and sustain change1. Visualise2. Limit Work-in-Progress3. Manage Flow4. Make Policies Explicit Kanban the Hard Way5. Implement Feedback Loops September 20126. Improve Collaboratively, evolve experimentally

Kanban works within your system …and beyond it Kanban the Hard Way September 2012

Kanban works…with your organisationand on itwith your processand on it Kanban the Hard Way September 2012within your systemand beyond it

Keywords Organisation  Visualisation, visual management  Knowledge discovery process  Sense-making  Self-organisation Process  Pull system, kanban system, flow Kanban the Hard Way  Bottleneck, variation, variety  Emergent behaviour, leverage points September 2012  Deliberate, evolutionary change; fitness  Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) System  Kanban Method  Models for collaborative improvement (several, growing)

References Kanban the Hard Way September 2012 Kanban, David J. Anderson http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/kanbanbook/

Resources kanbandev http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbandev/ kanbanops http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbanops/ #kanban https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23kanban Kanban the Hard Way djaa.com (agilemanagement.net) leankanbanuniversity.com September 2012 limitedwipsociety.org

Thank you.Questions? Kanban the Hard Way September 2012 Mike Burrows (@asplake) mike@djaa.com http://positiveincline.com

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