While most Kanban games usually focus only on the flow of an existing Kanban system demonstrating the path from an existing process to Kanban, this game allows you to learn more about the Kanban philosophy and how to work with it. Learning by doing and having fun at the same time.

1. Agile & Kanban
Andreyna Gonzalez

2. What are we going to do?
• Introduction: Agile & Kanban
• Kanban pizza game
• Translation into practice

3. Introduction
Agile & Kanban

4. Where does agile come
from?
• One way traffic
• Long projects
• Big plans, documentation
contract negotiation
• Unclarity & high cost
• Long distance to customer

5. Principles of Agile
Manifesto for Agile SW Development - We value... Modern Agile Principles
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Make People Awesome
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Make Safety a Prerequisite
Responding to change over following a plan Experiment & Learn Rapidly
Working software over comprehensive documentation Deliver Value Continuously

6. Modern agile
Four core principles
• Make people awesome
• Make safety a prerequisite
• Experiment and learn rapidly
• Deliver value continuously

7. Make people awesome
• Make your customer the best
• Focus on people
• Also: your own team

8. Make safety a
prerequisite
• Dare to fail
• Room
• Trust

9. Experiment and learn
rapidly
• Just do it!
• Small steps
• Fast feedback

10. Deliver value
continuously
• Focus on what your customer
can gain from it
• Something usable? Use it!
• Is your work adding value?

11. Kanban: simple basic
principles
1. Start with what you do
2. Agree to pursue incremental,
evolutionary change
3. Respect the current process,
roles, responsibilities & titles
4. Encourage acts of leadership at
all levels

12. Kanban Pizza game
Discover what Kanban feels like

13. Preparation
• All cutting must use scissors. One scissor per
team.
• ONE marker per team.
• ONE glue per team.
• ONE stop watch per team.
• ONE oven per team holds a maximum of 3
slices at once.
• Must bake for 30 sec. Burned after 45 sec.
• High quality: lots of sauce with toppings
firmly attached.

14. Pizza Hawaii: recipe
• Crust with outer edge folded
upward
• Tomato sauce. Don’t skimp!
• 3 slices of ham cut from
pink/orange stickies.
• 3 slices of pineapple cut from
yellow stickies.

15. STARTING
THE KANBAN PIZZA GAME
Round 1: Make as many slices as you can…
Let’s Play!

16. STOP – Let’s measure

17. Make Process Policies Explicit
Reference
pizza

18. INTRODUCING TWO KANBAN PRINCIPLES
1. Visualise the workflow
What steps does your work
go through?
2. Limit work in progress
(WIP)
Don’t let work pile up at any
step in the flow

19. VISUALISE YOUR WORKFLOW
&
LIMIT YOUR WORK IN PROGRESS
Round 2: Make as many slices as you can…
Let’s Play!

20. STOP – Let’s measure

21. Evaluate: The 6 Kanban pillars
1. Visualise the workflow
What steps does your work
go through?
3. Manage the flow
Lead time, cycle time,
throughput
2. Limit work in progress
(WIP)
Don’t let work pile up at any
step in the flow

22. Evaluate: The 6 Kanban pillars
4. Implement feedback
loops
Are you regularly reviewing
your work and processes?
6. Improve collaboratively,
improve experimentally
Use metrics and models to
continuously improve,
collaboratively
5. Make Process Policies
Explicit
Make it easy for people to
do the right things, and to
do them right

23. Draw your workflow
Look back to the game Use your materials
to make it look nice
Draw the flow
Including WIP limits

24. Feedback
Show the group your BEST slice
• Explain what you have done?
• Are you satisfied with the
slice?
• Are you regularly reviewing
your work and processes?

25. Round 3: Produce based on feedback…
Let’s play!
SERVICE EXCELLENCE
Think of something awesome
to make your customer happier…..

26. STOP – Let’s measure

27. 1. Visualise the workflow 3. Manage the flow2. Limit work in progress
4. Implement feedback
loops
6. Improve collaboratively,
improve experimentally
5. Make Process Policies
Explicit
And you?

28. WHAT DID WE LEARN?
WHAT CAN WE USE?
• What will you remember
from today?
• Was it useful?
• What’s the first thing you will
do with it?
• What can we do differently?
(Retrospective)

29. Thank you for attending
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