This document discusses using Kanban techniques to control incremental software development. It covers what a Kanban system is and how it can be applied to software development. The document provides guidance on how to set up a development team Kanban system, including defining the workflow process, creating a visual Kanban board, setting work in progress limits, prioritizing goals, and moving work through the process. It also discusses techniques like decomposing large tasks, using cumulative flow diagrams, and incorporating regular process inspections. The overall aim is to focus the team on continuous flow and detecting/resolving bottlenecks to improve delivery of work.
Kanban is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing and just-in-time manufacturing. Kanban is an inventory-control system to control the supply chain. Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency.
Literally, Kanban is a Japanese word that means "visual card". At Toyota, Kanban is the term used for the visual & physical signaling system that ties together the whole Lean Production system. Kanban as used in Lean Production is over a half century old. It is being adopted newly to some disciplines as software.
An overview of what Kanban is within Agile
View more on Kanban and its history/origins: https://agile-mercurial.com/2019/02/15/what-is-kanban/
https://agile-mercurial.com
Kanban is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing and just-in-time manufacturing. Kanban is an inventory-control system to control the supply chain. Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency.
Literally, Kanban is a Japanese word that means "visual card". At Toyota, Kanban is the term used for the visual & physical signaling system that ties together the whole Lean Production system. Kanban as used in Lean Production is over a half century old. It is being adopted newly to some disciplines as software.
An overview of what Kanban is within Agile
View more on Kanban and its history/origins: https://agile-mercurial.com/2019/02/15/what-is-kanban/
https://agile-mercurial.com
A Kanban board is a work and workflow visualization tool that enables you to optimize the flow of your work. It utilizes a visual cues that tell you what to produce, how much to produce and when to produce it. This presentation contains brief information related to Kanban board like what is Kanban board, how Kanban works and how to start with Kanban board.
Training - Introducing Agile, Lean and KanbanSudipta Lahiri
This is a presentation that I did for a team to introduce them to Agile, Lean and Kanban, It covers these these 3 areas, how they overlap and then gets into greater details about the Kanban Method.
Kanban is a tool that allows you to fully visualize the status of your processes through a board with dynamic columns that make all tasks and processes steps clear.
In this presentation, Roni explains the basics of Kanban and the principles governing the application of Kanban for process improvement. We also look at a comparison between Scrum and Kanban and visit the basic differences between them.
It includes pointers telling what’s wrong with the current system, history of Kanban, introduction to Kanban, benefits of using Kanban, practices used in Kanban, principles of Kanban, how is Scrum different from Kanban. The tutorial begins with details about the current system and what’s wrong with it. It includes pointers like burnout, low throughput, unidentified bottlenecks, too much work which tell what’s wrong with the current system.
Followed by is a section about the history of Kanban which includes points like how the name originated, who discovered it, design, visual signals, based on which system. Resulting in an introduction section which talks about Kanban, what method it uses, scheduling system, what it consists of, amount of work, identification etc. Next comes the benefits section which includes the benefits of using Kanban like helps in visualizing the system, allows to evaluate, identify bottlenecks, establish trust in process etc.
Afterwards there is a section about Kanban practices. It includes practices used in Kanban like visualize, limit WIP in each phase of development, managing flow by keeping it under monitor, make policies explicit, improve collaboratively through the use of scientific models and some terms like lead time, cycle time, throughput etc. Moreover, it also includes the board for easy visualization, story card for keeping track, charts for measurement, control charts to measure average time taken for each task, cumulative flow diagrams showing relative amount of work.
Then comes the principles of Kanban. It includes principles which should be used in Kanban like agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change, optimize what already exists, respect the current process, roles, responsibilities, leadership at all levels to empower the workforce to bring about change. The last section of this tutorial is Scrum vs Kanban. It explains how scrum is different from Kanban by giving pointers like Scrum prescribes roles, time boxed iterations, backlog items must fit, limit WIP in a different way. It also includes pointers giving reason why it shouldn’t matter because emphasis should be on the goal and not the tool.
Implementing Kanban to Improve your WorkflowJennifer Davis
Tutorial from LOPSA East
System, network, and security senior engineers manage intricate relationships ensuring that everything from simple tasks to complex projects gets completed in a timely manner. In this workshop, we will talk about using agile processes to identify, visualize, and improve work.
Outline:
Overview of the kanban process. What is kanban?
Identify common problems.
Define common terminology explicitly.
Work through common problems as a group using kanban.
Identify metrics for improvement.
Review, next steps, additional resources.
At the end of this tutorial, attendees will have a solid understanding of kanban and agile processes to take back to their environments.
Imported from Japan, Kanban is an agile methodology that is gaining a lot of traction. Kanban, or Japanese for signal card, is a process that focuses on transparency and limiting the work in progress. By utilizing Kanban, you can pinpoint the bottlenecks and address them easily. In this session you will learn what Kanban is, how it evolved from its roots in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and lean manufacturing to software development, Kanban’s benefits, and how best to implement a Kanban system. We’ll also discuss when not to use Kanban and how to modify other agile methodologies, such as Scrum, to be used in conjunction with Kanban.
Kanban vs Scrum: What's the difference, and which should you use?Arun Kumar
Originally presented at the 207 Lean Transformation Conference, this presentation provides a practical introduction to Scrum, particularly for public sector employees, and guides you to deciding whether Kanban or Scrum will work best for your teams and projects.
A survey of Kanban, a software development practice, its history, why people are using it, how to start using it, why it works, criticisms of it, advanced techniques, some general advice and a selected set of references,
Kanban 101 - 1 - Perfection, Waste and Value Stream MappingMichael Sahota
Kanban 101 workshop by John Goodsen and Michael Sahota.
This introduces key concepts from Lean around perfection and elimination of waste. It also introduces Value Stream Maps as starting point for Kanban.
Please ask us if you would like PPT version.
A Kanban board is a work and workflow visualization tool that enables you to optimize the flow of your work. It utilizes a visual cues that tell you what to produce, how much to produce and when to produce it. This presentation contains brief information related to Kanban board like what is Kanban board, how Kanban works and how to start with Kanban board.
Training - Introducing Agile, Lean and KanbanSudipta Lahiri
This is a presentation that I did for a team to introduce them to Agile, Lean and Kanban, It covers these these 3 areas, how they overlap and then gets into greater details about the Kanban Method.
Kanban is a tool that allows you to fully visualize the status of your processes through a board with dynamic columns that make all tasks and processes steps clear.
In this presentation, Roni explains the basics of Kanban and the principles governing the application of Kanban for process improvement. We also look at a comparison between Scrum and Kanban and visit the basic differences between them.
It includes pointers telling what’s wrong with the current system, history of Kanban, introduction to Kanban, benefits of using Kanban, practices used in Kanban, principles of Kanban, how is Scrum different from Kanban. The tutorial begins with details about the current system and what’s wrong with it. It includes pointers like burnout, low throughput, unidentified bottlenecks, too much work which tell what’s wrong with the current system.
Followed by is a section about the history of Kanban which includes points like how the name originated, who discovered it, design, visual signals, based on which system. Resulting in an introduction section which talks about Kanban, what method it uses, scheduling system, what it consists of, amount of work, identification etc. Next comes the benefits section which includes the benefits of using Kanban like helps in visualizing the system, allows to evaluate, identify bottlenecks, establish trust in process etc.
Afterwards there is a section about Kanban practices. It includes practices used in Kanban like visualize, limit WIP in each phase of development, managing flow by keeping it under monitor, make policies explicit, improve collaboratively through the use of scientific models and some terms like lead time, cycle time, throughput etc. Moreover, it also includes the board for easy visualization, story card for keeping track, charts for measurement, control charts to measure average time taken for each task, cumulative flow diagrams showing relative amount of work.
Then comes the principles of Kanban. It includes principles which should be used in Kanban like agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change, optimize what already exists, respect the current process, roles, responsibilities, leadership at all levels to empower the workforce to bring about change. The last section of this tutorial is Scrum vs Kanban. It explains how scrum is different from Kanban by giving pointers like Scrum prescribes roles, time boxed iterations, backlog items must fit, limit WIP in a different way. It also includes pointers giving reason why it shouldn’t matter because emphasis should be on the goal and not the tool.
Implementing Kanban to Improve your WorkflowJennifer Davis
Tutorial from LOPSA East
System, network, and security senior engineers manage intricate relationships ensuring that everything from simple tasks to complex projects gets completed in a timely manner. In this workshop, we will talk about using agile processes to identify, visualize, and improve work.
Outline:
Overview of the kanban process. What is kanban?
Identify common problems.
Define common terminology explicitly.
Work through common problems as a group using kanban.
Identify metrics for improvement.
Review, next steps, additional resources.
At the end of this tutorial, attendees will have a solid understanding of kanban and agile processes to take back to their environments.
Imported from Japan, Kanban is an agile methodology that is gaining a lot of traction. Kanban, or Japanese for signal card, is a process that focuses on transparency and limiting the work in progress. By utilizing Kanban, you can pinpoint the bottlenecks and address them easily. In this session you will learn what Kanban is, how it evolved from its roots in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and lean manufacturing to software development, Kanban’s benefits, and how best to implement a Kanban system. We’ll also discuss when not to use Kanban and how to modify other agile methodologies, such as Scrum, to be used in conjunction with Kanban.
Kanban vs Scrum: What's the difference, and which should you use?Arun Kumar
Originally presented at the 207 Lean Transformation Conference, this presentation provides a practical introduction to Scrum, particularly for public sector employees, and guides you to deciding whether Kanban or Scrum will work best for your teams and projects.
A survey of Kanban, a software development practice, its history, why people are using it, how to start using it, why it works, criticisms of it, advanced techniques, some general advice and a selected set of references,
Kanban 101 - 1 - Perfection, Waste and Value Stream MappingMichael Sahota
Kanban 101 workshop by John Goodsen and Michael Sahota.
This introduces key concepts from Lean around perfection and elimination of waste. It also introduces Value Stream Maps as starting point for Kanban.
Please ask us if you would like PPT version.
Scrum and Kanban - Getting the Most from EachMichael Sahota
Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology with Kanban a growing second choice. Learn about the core parts of each one as well as how they differ so that you can find the best fit for your team or organizational context. For example, Scrum is great when you want to shake up the status quo and transform the way you work. Kanban is great when small changes are a better fit for the environment. Learn how they work and how you can use them in your environment.
Kanban boards have become popular among many companies from different industries. This presentation contains several Kanban boards examples by Kanban Tool, along with a brief description of the application.
How to create your first Personal Kanban and visualize your work. Entry level for the book "Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life".
More at http://personalkanban.com
Kanban 101 - An Introduction to Planning with Little's LawJack Speranza
Sharing this presentation from our monthly series through Agile New England. This is a high-level introduction to planning and forecasting. The talk behind the slides is really more informative. If you'd like to learn more, connect with me.
Kanban method in four easy steps. Enjoy kanban.
Kanban in 4 easy steps is one of the most popular Kanban presentations. Learn how to successfully implement Kanban in your business process or life. Get to know basic Kanban principles and to see how easily you can improve your productivity using Kanban boards.
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1. Using Kanban Techniques
to Control Incremental
Development
Jeff Patton
AgileProductDesign.com
jpatton@acm.org
Download this presentation at: www.agileproductdesign.com/downloads/patton_kanban.ppt
2. In this short talk we’ll cover:
1. What is a Kanban System and how
does it apply to software development?
2. How to set up a development team
Kanban System
3. Applying Lean thinking to software
development
2
3. –看板 Kanban cards limit excess work
in progress
–看板 Kanban literally means
“visual card,” “signboard,” or
“billboard.”
Toyota originally used Kanban
cards to limit the amount of
inventory tied up in “work in
progress” on a manufacturing floor
Not only is excess inventory waste,
time spent producing it is time
that could be expended elsewhere
Kanban cards act as a form of
“currency” representing how WIP
is allowed in a system.
3
4. Kanban simulation
Let’s simulate a simple process, then see if we can
improve it by adding a Kanban system.
I’ll need 5 volunteers to manufacture the latest in
high-tech aircraft
4
5. Why use Kanban in
Software Development?
(we’re not building aircraft – or anything tangible really)
5
6. Time-boxed iterative development has
challenges
Common problems include:
•Short time-boxes give more frequent opportunity to
measure progress and inspect software but force
development items to be smaller
•Smaller development items are often too small to be
valuable and difficult to identify
•Quality of requirements suffers as analysts rush to prepare
for upcoming cycles
•Quality of current development suffers when busy analysts
are unable to inspect software or answer questions during
development
•Quality often suffers as testers race to complete work late
in the development time-box 6
7. Inside an iteration, effort across roles is
uneven
Development work often continues throughout a cycle
while testing starts late and never seems to get enough time7
8. Using a Kanban approach
in software drops time-
boxed iterations in favor of
focusing on continuous
flow.
8
9. How to set up a simple
Kanban system for a
software development
team.
9
10. 1. Define a work process flow
Look at the typical flow for features, stories, or work
packages and describe typical process steps
This simple process flow has the steps:
1.elaboration & acceptance criteria
2.development
3.test
4.deployment
10
11. 2. Lay out a visual Kanban board
Place a goals column on the left, then a waiting queue, the
process steps, and a final “done” column to the right
Place an expedite track above the main
left to right queue
Place “done and waiting” queues
between each work queue
(in this example they’re placed below)
11
12. 3. Decide on limits for items in queue
and work in progress
A good limit is a factor of the number of people in a role that can work
on an item in a given process step. Start with number of people * 1.5
This board uses painters tape to
indicate available “slots” for work in
progress
12
13. 4. Place prioritized goals on the left
column of the board
A good goal describes the outcome we hope to achieve after software
ships. Goals help keep focus on the larger outcome.
Having goals visible:
•promotes focus
•helps us prioritize
•helps us manage feature scope &
requirements
13
14. 5. Start the board by placing stories or
features in queue
Mark on the story or feature card the date it entered the queue. This
begins our measurement of cycle time.
Product owners manage the waiting
queue
14
15. 6. Move features through the process
flow as work is completed
As the story enters the first process step, mark that date on the card.
This is the start date. As it’s finished, mark that date on the card. This
is the finish date. 15
16. 7. Use the dates on the cards to
calculate cycle time
Use average cycle time to set wait times from different points on the
board. Pay attention to flow and bottlenecks: relieving bottlenecks as
quickly as possible.
Cycle time = finish date – start date
The average cycle time from the date
the item enters the board is the wait
time from this point in the queue
16
17. Display and manage cycle times
Reduce the number of Kanban slots allowed until cycle time remains
unchanged
Reduce the size of development items
•Work in progress is actually the number of items * the average size of items
Identify and act on bottlenecks immediately
•Relieve repeated bottlenecks by changing the number and types of people in
each role and cross training
Disneyland’s
public display of
cycle-times
17
23. Explode large process steps into tasks
to improve visibility
When a feature, user story, or work item is large:
Takes longer than a couple days to complete
Requires that multiple people collaborate on its completion
Decompose that step into cards to track independently
Feature to
develop Tasks in queue
Tasks in
progress
Tasks
complete
Feature
complete
23
25. Use cumulative flow diagrams to
visualize work in progress
www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Papers/BorConManagingwithCumulat.html
25
26. Use cumulative flow diagrams to
visualize work in progress
www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Papers/BorConManagingwithCumulat.html
26
27. Keep time-boxed product and process
inspection
Keep regular time-boxes in your process as a cue for product
inspection:
•Evaluate the quality of the growing product from a functional,
engineering, and user experience perspective
Evaluate your pace of development:
•Look at the number of development items completed relative to goals
•Look at the average cycle time per development item
•Calculate the ratio of developer days per completed item. Use this
ratio to estimate the completion time for undeveloped items
•Adjust your development plan as necessary
Evaluate and adjust the process you’re using
•Use a process reflection session to identify changes you could make to
improve your product or pace
Ending cycles right: http://www.stickyminds.com/s.asp?F=S14865_COL_2
27
28. Begin looking at your process using Lean thinking
Cockburn’s Software Engineering in the 21st
Century:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Software+engineering+in+the+21st+century.ppt
28
29. Since we’re engaged in “knowledge work” look at
the cycle time of validated decisions, or knowledge
Cockburn’s Software Engineering in the 21st
Century:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Software+engineering+in+the+21st+century.ppt
29
30. Often the feedback loop is overlooked – it’s the
invisible backed-up queue
Cockburn’s Software Engineering in the 21st
Century:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Software+engineering+in+the+21st+century.ppt
30
31. Setting up a simple Kanban
system starts to focus the team
on the cycle-time of delivered
work and gives a way to detect
and begin to resolve bottlenecks
31
32. 33
• Anderson, Kanban in Action:
http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/KanbaninAction.ht
ml
• Hiranabe, Kanban Applied to Software Development: from Agile
to Lean: http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban
• Ladas, Scrumban - Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean
Software Development: http://www.lulu.com/content/3864767
• Ladas, Scrum-ban:
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/
• Belshee, Naked Planning, Kanban Simplified:
http://joearnold.com/2008/03/naked-planning-kanban-
simplified/
Kanban References: