Agile Kolkata 2023

1. Kanban for Everyone -
Personal Kanban
by: Prashant J Mavinkare
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2. Prashant J Mavinkare
Enterprise Agile Coach with
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10+ Agile Experience, 23+ Industry
Experience
Accredited Kanban Trainer, SAFe
Program Consultant
Community Leader: Kanban India,
Agile Network India, Agile Summit,
Agile Gurugram, Agile Mumbai
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3. Let us do an
Activity!
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4. Source of
Dissatisfaction?
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5. Analyze
Demand
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6. Analyze
Capabilities
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7. Model the
Workflow
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8. Identify
Class of Service
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9. Design a Kanban
System
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10. What challenge
we want to
overcome?
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11. Few Challenges listed….
● Relief from overburdening
● Delivering on Customer expectations
● Organisational Agility
● Predictable economic outcome and financial
robustness
● Survivability
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12. What is kanban?
(meaning)
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13. Kanban has 2 meanings
● Kanban has two meanings in Japanese. Both meanings are incorporated into
the Kanban Method.
● Written 看板 in Kanji (Chinese characters), kanban means “sign” or “large
visual board.”
● Written かんばん in Hiragana (the Japanese alphabet), kanban means “signal
card(s).”
● In Chinese, only the 看板 version exists. In Chinese, kanban literally means
“looking at the board” (and interpret the cartoon on the book cover very
literally), but the method was actually inspired by the signal cards system
used in Japan.
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14. What is Kanban?
(as a method)
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15. Kanban Method
An approach for managing
and improving the flow of
value from Knowledge works!
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16. Kanban, Kanban System & Kanban Method
1. What is a kanban?
a Visual Signal
1. What is a kanban system?
a system that manages work using (real or virtual)
kanbans to Control the Flow
1. What is the Kanban Method?
approach to Define and Improvise kanban systems
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17. Kanban Values
Transparency Customer
Focus
Understanding
Balance Flow Agreement
Collaboration Leadership Respect
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18. General Practices
1. Visualize
2. Limit WIP
3. Manage Flow
4. Make Policies Explicit
5. Implement Feedback Loops
6. Improve Collaboratively Evolve Experimentally
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19. Implementing Kanban
1. Change your View Point:
See work as a Flow
1. Change your Mindset ( foundational principles):
Start from where you are and evolve
1. Change your process continually (core practices):
Make work and policies visible
Make Validated Improvements
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20. Personal Kanban is:
1. A productivity tool: limiting our WIP helps us accomplish more.
2. An efficiency tool: focusing on our value stream encourages us to find
ways to do more while spending less effort.
3. An effectiveness tool: making our options explicit leads us to make
informed decisions.
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21. Kanbanize your System!
● Stop Starting, Start
Finishing!
● Manage your Work, not the
Worker
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22. Kanban
An Alternative Path to
Agility!
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23. Kanban in 5 min by
Andy Carmichael
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24. Important Takeaways
● What is Kanban?
● Why Kanban?
● Challenges to Overcome
● Kanbanize your System
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25. References
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26. Thank you!
prashant.mavinkare@i
nnovationroots.com
Contact:
9986026474 /
8494932220
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