This document provides information about an Agile conference called "Let's Play Kanban" hosted in Dubai in 2016. It includes the sponsors of the conference and background information about Amr Noaman, the Agile trainer and consultant from Agile Academy who presented. The bulk of the document explains how Kanban works through visualizing the system and using work-in-progress limits to reduce wait times and increase throughput. Charts and examples are provided to illustrate these Kanban concepts.

1. LET’S PLAY KANBAN
AGILE MIDDLE EAST
DUBAI - 2016
Amr Noaman
Agile Trainer and Consultant
Agile Academy

2. AGILE MEAGILE ME
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platinum sponsor
gold sponsor
silver sponsors
bronze sponsors

3. Amr Noaman Abdel-Hamid
Co-initiator of Egypt’s GoAgile program at
2011, to boost lean & agile software
development in Egypt – Trained hundreds of
trainees and worked with tens of
companies.
Agile practitioner, coach,
trainer, consultant, writer
and lecturer ICAgile Authorized Instructor
SCEA, CSP, 6σ black-belt for IT
Author in international
magazines (IEEE, Infoq), and
speaker at global conferences
(Agile Conference, PMI Global
Congress)
Co-founder of
Agile Academy
Egypt Lean and Agile Network
Agile Egypt
Email: amr@agileacademy.co
Blog: amr.agileegypt.org
Twitter: @AmrNoaman

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Background

5. Visualize Your System
How Kanban Works? 5
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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Doing Done Doing Done Doing Done
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Input
Downstream
Delivery
Throughput

6. How Kanban Works? 6
BacklogItems
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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Doing Done Doing Done Doing Done
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Input
Downstream
Delivery
Total Cycle Time
Throughput
Process Lead Time
Backlog Wait Time
Activity Time Wait Time (Delay)

7. Up to 80% of business activity time is lost in
“wait time” due to transit and overheads not
related to business.*
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Business Activity
Activity Total time
Activity Wait Time
Activity Execution time
* Ref: gartner.com
7How Kanban Works?

8. 90% reduction in activity wait time = 72%
reduction in activity total time !
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Activity Total time
Activity Waiting Time
Activity Execution Time
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9. How Kanban Works? 9
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Input
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