1. Avoiding
Kanban pitfals
Arkadiusz Felinczak
ALI 2019

2. Agile methodologies
 Pure SCRUM 56% (State of Agile 2018)
 Only 16% organization claims maturity
 Initialy high adoption failure rate ~ 70%
 Will Kanban adoptions be more sucessful?

3. Kanban – 5 principles
 Visualize Work (and workflow)
 Limit Work in Process
 Manage Flow
 Make Process Policies Explicit
 Improve Collaboratively

4. Sounds Simple ?
Source: https://brookestoneassociates.com/land-mines-of-change

5. 1. Whiteboard grants trasparency
 Whiteboard - Information Radiator
 Work items missing / not updated
 Fake Process
 Wrong granularity
 Focus on team & stakeholder needs

6. 2. No Love for WIP limits
 Lack/high/breaking WIP Limits
 Low productivity & colaboration
 Poor flow (high Cycle Times)
 To busy to improve
 Evolve WIP Limits base on CT and slack

7. 3. Gut driven decisions
 Teams not using metrics
 Caputered for reporting only
 To unstable to be useful
 Stabilize metrics
 Metrics based decisions

8. 4. No Customer Focus
 Lack of focus on delivering value
 Poor understanding customer needs = poor product
 Release cycle (weeks or more)
 Instant feedback loops
 Customer workshops, User Testing

9. Summary
 Understand purpose behind priciples
 Always look for improvements
 Limiting WIP is key Kanban practise
 Customer focus: delivery & feedback

10. Thank you