The document discusses strategies for scaling Kanban beyond team levels, emphasizing visibility, continuous improvement, and efficient project organization. Key practices include utilizing Kanban boards at program and portfolio levels, managing a product backlog, and fostering cross-team collaboration. It also highlights the benefits of digital boards in enhancing productivity and traceability while maintaining a focus on delivering value and reducing waste.

1. Scaling Kanban Beyond the Team Level
JOHAN KARLSSON

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Presenters
Johan Karlsson
jkarlsson@perforce.com
Senior Consultant, Hansoft
Perforce Software

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Learn How To:
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Increase visibility into all your projects.
Easily create and maintain new Kanban boards.
Organize details on project levels.

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Kanban in Most Organizations

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Principles:
• Visualize work.
• Focus on delivering value (not optimizing resources).
• Reduce waste by identifying sources for continuous
improvement.
Concretely what Scaling Kanban is all about
These are not team-specific
principles. They can be applied at
any scale!
Practices:
• Connect the vision with the work.
• Build Kanban boards to be used on program and
portfolio levels.
• Pull (don’t push) work from portfolio to individual.
• Product backlog management is a valuable skill.

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Examples of Scaling Kanban
Portfolio Kanban
Program Board
Team Board
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Digitize Kanban to facilitate cross-team discussions and improvements.
Joint product/project-wide Kanban for more accurate release management.
Portfolio Kanban boards to help drive business success.

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Digital Board on Team Level
Why go digital?
• Support distributed work.
• Enhance security.
• Improve traceability.
• Increase productivity.
• Manage speed of change.
• Environmentally friendly.
• Single source of truth.
• Batch updates.
• Automate.
• Scale your teams and projects.

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Look at the Big Picture
• One of the main benefits with Kanban is the ability to take a step
back.
• Zoom out.
• Don’t get lost in the details.
• Easily visualize bottlenecks.
• Helps facilitate cross-team discussions about improvements.

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SAFe Program Board: Good Practices for Successful PI Planning
• Used for:
• Release planning on a
single product with many
teams working on it.
• Focusing on resolving
cross-team dependencies.
• Working in iteration-
driven organization.
• 3 Tips:
• Avoid a spider web at
all costs.
• Use colors to organize.
• Keep it visual with images
etc. when suitable.

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The Portfolio Kanban
• There are many varieties of
Portfolio Kanban.
• They have high-level business
and architectural epics.
• Portfolio is one of the most
common sources of “push.”
• Succeeding with a “pull system”
can radically improve performance.

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Connecting the Dots
Program/Product Planning
Events
Portfolio Kanban
Program Board
Team Board
Sprint Planning Events

12. Creating a Kanban Board Using Hansoft

13. Questions?
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