This talk describes how you can use Kanban as an alternative method for scaling your organisation for agility. Contrasting with other methods, Kanban doesn't look for large disruptive change as a default.

1. Scaling agility across your
enterprise with Kanban
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Scaling Agile Community Meetup
Adelaide, Australia
October 2020

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What do we mean by scale?
More?
Larger?
Extra Complexity?

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What does it mean to scale
agility?
Responding to change?
Optimise the
organisational network?
Reinventing the org?

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Kanban
Kanban is a management method for:
• Directly improving service delivery
• Catalyzing improvements
• Evolving your business to be fit for your
customers purpose(s)

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Kanban – Evolutionary Change
• Start with what you do
now (respect current
roles and processes -
initially)
• Gain agreement to
pursue improvement
through evolutionary
change
• Encourage acts of
leadership at all levels

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Kanban Practices
• Visualise
• Limit WiP
• Manage Flow
• Make Policies Explicit
• Feedback Loops
• Improve and Evolve

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Scaling with Kanban is different
Other scaling techniques
are highly disruptive:
• Don’t start by
reorganizing the
structure of the
organization
• Don’t introduce new
roles (at least initially)
• Don’t follow a “one
size fits all”

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Understanding your organisation
Your organization is a network of
interdependent services.

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What are the key problems / pain
points
Always address the key
problems / pain points
that an organisation is
facing.
Use STATIK to assist.

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Starting with Kanban - STATIK
Socialize Socialize design & negotiate implementation
Design Design the Kanban system
Identify & define Identify & define classes of service
Model Model the service delivery workflow
Analyze Analyze current delivery capability
Analyze Analyze sources of and nature of demand
Understand Understand sources of dissatisfaction regarding current delivery
Understand Understand what makes the service “fit for purpose”

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Ways to scale agility
Height
Width
Depth

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Scaling for Height
Height
Different levels in the flow –
eg go to the program or
portfolio level and apply
STATIK there

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Scaling for width
Width
Current FocusUpstream Downstream
Look up and down the value
stream and extend outwards

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Scaling for depth
Depth
Balancing flow across
the entire network

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Scaling for depth
Depth
For coaches and managers
looking for deeper
organisational maturity

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Further Information
Title Author URL
Evogility Blog posts Daniel Ploeg https://evogility.com.au/blog-page/
Essential Kanban Condensed David J Anderson and Andy
Carmichael
http://leankanban.com/guide
Kanban Maturity Model David J Anderson & Teodora Bozheva https://www.kanbanmaturitymodel.com/
Rethinking Agile: Why agile teams have nothing
to do with Business Agility
Klaus Leopold https://www.amazon.com.au/Rethinking-Agile-
Nothing-Business-Agility/dp/3903205397

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Learning Pathway
Able to explain Kanban
basics and motivations and
apply Kanban practices in a
team.
Able to design Kanban
systems up to level 3, and to
continuously improve
service delivery.
Able to apply the the KMM
playbook to help evolve an
organization to a higher
maturity.
Team Kanban
Practitioner
ClassesCredentialSkills
Kanban System Design +
Kanban Systems Improvement
Kanban Maturity Model +
Kanban Coaching Practices
Available
soon

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Learning More
Team Kanban Practitioner
November: 9-11
(evenings)
Register:
https://evogility.com.au/events/7-team-kanban-practitioner-virtual-evening/
Discount Code: meetup10

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Learning More
Kanban System Design
November: 14-15, 22-22
(weekends – half days)
Register:
https://evogility.com.au/events/9-kanban-system-design-virtual/
Discount Code: meetup10

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Learning More
Kanban Systems Improvement
November 28 – December 1
(half days)
Register:
https://evogility.com.au/events/10-kanban-systems-improvement-virtual/
Discount Code: meetup10