Kanban for Beginners as presented at LASTConf Adelaide May 2019. Gives an overview of Kanban and it's key practices with some hints and tips on how to get started.

1. Kanban for Beginners
LAST Conference - Adelaide
May 2019

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3. Daniel Ploeg is an experienced leader in
Agile Software Delivery and Product
Development. Daniel helps organisations
unleash their own potential by facilitating
new and innovative ways of thinking and
working.
Accredited Kanban Trainer
Kanban Coaching Profesional
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About Me

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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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Visualise
Ongoing
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Visualise
Ongoing
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Who is
working on it
Whole value
stream
WiP Limits
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Different
work type
Different class
of service
Policies

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Visualise
• Modify the boards and cards to suit your
context. There is no such thing as a
“Standard” design.
• Put the data up near the boards
• Boards can be physical or electronic

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By Avatar
Limit WiP
Ongoing
DoneBacklog
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C A
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Max 2 per
person

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Swimlanes
Limit WiP
Ongoing
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Virtual
Limit WiP
Ongoing
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Must deploy
ticket B before
pulling ticket C

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Manage Flow
• Seeing and removing bottlenecks
• Is there a balance of input and output?
• Are we balancing our risk correctly?

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System Lead Time
What is Lead Time?
System Lead Time
Ongoing
DoneBacklog
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PBDE
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P1
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2 ∞
2
System Lead Time –
From time it is pulled
system of work, until it
first unbound queue

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Manage Flow
Too much red
means we
have too
much WiP –
restrict input
flow
Too much
green means
the team will
run out of
work –
increase input
flow

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Manage Flow
Is the flow
volume
regular or
sporadic?

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Manage Flow - Risk
• Use Class of Service to ensure you are
balancing competing risks

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Explicit Policies
Ongoing
DoneBacklog
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C A
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DevelopmentTo Do Testing Deploy-
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Done Ongoing Done
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Policies
Dev Done Means…
1.
2.
3.
4. Policies
Explicit
Policies -
visible to all
Downstream
processes
help define
what is
needed

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Feedback Loops
Service Delivery
Review
Kanban
Meeting
Delivery
Planning
Replenishment
Operations
Review
Risk Review(s)
Strategy
Review

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Improve and Evolve
• Continuous improvement by teams
(Kaizen)
• Occasionally, to remove larger system
bottlenecks manager intervention is
required (Kaikaku).
• Improvements occur through feedback
loops

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Thank you!

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Further Information
Title Author URL
Essential Kanban Condensed David J Anderson and
Andy Carmichael
http://leankanban.com/guide
Personal Kanban Tonianne DeMaria
Barry and Jim Benson
https://www.amazon.com/Personal-
Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigating-
ebook/dp/B004R1Q642
Kanban (the “Blue” book) David J Anderson https://www.amazon.com/Kanban-
David-J-Anderson-
ebook/dp/B0057H2M70
The Scrumban (R)Evolution Ajay Reddy https://www.amazon.com/Scrumban-
Evolution-Getting-Software-
Development-ebook/dp/B010TQKZ5E

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Learning More
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September 2-3
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