Kanban Exploration

The Kanban
Exploration

Karl Scotland
agile coach
15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training.
Successfully applying Agile methods for the last 10 years.
Championed Agile and Lean Thinking with the BBC, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting.
Founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society.
Twitter: @kjscotland

Systems

Analysis
Change

Ball Flow Game
RULES:
You are one big team
Your goal: Process 20 balls by passing them through a pipeline, following a set of rules.
Balls must have air time
Everyone must touch each ball
No balls direct to your neighbor
Start point = End point
PLAYBOOK:
Prepare (2 mins)
Estimate time
Process
Change system & re- estimate
Repeat 5 times
Debrief

Visualisation

YOUR
TURN
Visualise
the way the work works
value demand
failure demand
expedited work
work state

…
Stage 1
Done
Stage 2
Stage n
Work Items
In
Process
In
Process
In
Process
Queue
Queue
Queue
…

YOUR
TURN
Visualise:
capacity for work
who is working on what
priorities for work
availability for work
unavailability for work

Learning

MihalyiCzikszentmihalyi,
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow Zone
High
Anxiety
Skills
Boredom
Low
High
Ability

YOUR
TURN
Visualise:
blocked work
bottlenecks
work dependencies
people dependencies
3rd party dependencies

Capability

YOUR
TURN
Visualise:
time since work was started
time to work completion
risk of work
quality of work
fidelity of work

Conclusions

Thank you!
Email: kscotland@rallydev.com
Twitter: @kjscotland
Blog: http://availagility.co.uk
LWS: http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/

Kanban Exploration

by kjscotland on Nov 16, 2010

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