Are You Really Using Kanban?

1. ARE YOU REALLY USING KANBAN? OR JUST MAKING A LIST OF ISSUES? @TOMCUDD TOMCUDD.COM/KANBAN

2. • Same team • Same number of people • Same tools • Different process and thinking • Doubled the ticket output Why Kanban?

3. • Tech Stacks Java PHP .NET • CMS Platforms Adobe AEM Drupal Sitecore • Cloud Platforms AWS Azure Google • Oh, and also Tomcat, WebSphere, Umbraco, Wordpress, Joomla, Oracle Web Center, DotNetNuke, OpenText, episerver, Magnolia, and the list goes on and on. Why Did We Have a Problem?

4. • I have no idea what I’m doing The Mess: Before

5. • “What are you working on?” • “Are you busy right now?” • “Do you have a minute?” The Mess: In Reality

6. • Read • Analyze • Think • Now what? The Mess: During

7. • What? • NO! DevOps!

8. KANBAN 01 02 03 04 Introduction 30 Second History Core Concepts Beyond

9. A Curious Kanban

10. • A management philosophy and practice • Studied how customers shopped in grocery stores • How stockers replenished shelves Toyota Production Systems • Eliminate waste • Improve Flow Lean Manufacturing • Promoted manufacturing efficiency • Avoiding overload Kanban • Manufacturing method • Aligning inventory with production Just in Time • Improvement Kata • A3 • PDCA • OODA Improvement methods • Modern software delivery uses previously learned manufacturing tactics Summary A 30 Second History

11. • Visualize the Work • Limiting Work In Progress • Focus on Flow • Continuous Improvement Core Concepts

12. Visualize the Work

15. Limit Work In Progress

16. “Part of the purpose of WIP limits is to reveal opportunities for improvement. Imposing WIP limits will focus attention on work which is blocked or hard to complete, since our inability to complete it prevents us picking up new work. At this point it’s tempting to relax WIP limits to make sure ‘something is getting done’” “It’s essential to avoid this temptation and address the sources of the problem instead.” – LEAN ENTERPRISE WIP Limits Should Hurt

17. Focus on Flow

18. Continuous Improvement

19. • Planning • Context Switching • Prioritization Beyond the Core

20. Planning

21. Context Switching

22. • “…even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40 percent of someone’s productive time.” Context Switching

23. • Average time between interruptions: 1m15s • Aver recovery time after interruptions: 25m • Temporary lowering of IQ: by 15 points Context Switching

24. Prioritization

25. • “What will cost us the most, by delaying its delivery?” Prioritization

26. • Source: LEAN ENTERPRISE Cost of Delay

27. • Start using whatever you can • Start working • Start now • Start • Start • Start • Start • Start • No really, just start • Evaluate often How to Start?

28. • Understand your process • Where things start and end • Evaluate often How to Start?

29. • People might be mad Lessons Learned

30. • Publish your process Lessons Learned

31. • Educate/Train Lessons Learned

32. • Don’t give up Lessons Learned

33. • Be willing to adjust Lessons Learned

34. Celebrate Successes

35. • http://www.everydaykanban.com/what-is-kanban/ • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban • http://kanbanblog.com/explained/ • http://kanbanblog.com/explained/GettingStarted.html • https://leankit.com/learn/kanban/what-is-kanban/ • https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban • http://www.apa.org/research/action/multitask.aspx • https://www.leadingagile.com/2015/06/an-introduction-to-cost-of-delay/ • http://blog.trello.com/why-context-switching-ruins-productivity • http://www.everydaykanban.com/what-is-kanban/ All the links

36. • https://pixabay.com/photos/application-business-collaboration-3426397/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/chimpanzee-sitting-sad-mammal-978809/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/concept-man-papers-person-plan-1868728/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/dominoes-domino-barricade-hand-1902622/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/laboratory-analysis-chemistry-2815641/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/library-books-knowledge-information-1147815/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/whiteboard-dry-erase-marker-blank-2903269/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/railway-station-gleise-rail-traffic-3760647/ • https://pixabay.com/illustrations/work-work-process-organize-board-4096927/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/cat-angry-unhappy-wild-black-gray-334383/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/wordpress-blogging-blogger-editor-265132/ • https://pixabay.com/illustrations/online-education-tutorial-3412473/ • https://pixabay.com/illustrations/board-school-task-auto-task-2161880/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/tool-repair-work-metal-roulette-2820944/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/adler-bird-raptor-bald-eagle-3010053/ • https://pixabay.com/photos/cat-kitten-tree-green-summer-1647775/ Pictures

37. • https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509/ • https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002/ • https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Enterprise-Performance-Organizations-Innovate/dp/1449368425/ • https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison- Wesley/dp/0321601912/ • The Episode: https://www.amazon.com/George-Buys-Kite-Train-Light/dp/B00CHU5B3C/ All the books

38. The Episode

39. • Twitter: @tomcudd • https://tomcudd.com/kanban Thanks!

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