Learn how to best manage workflow using Kanban Pizza

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Visualise your workflow, improve value delivery
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Kanban Principles
START WITH WHAT YOU DO
NOW
AGREE TO PURSUE
INCREMENTAL,
EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
RESPECT THE CURRENT
PROCESS, ROLES,
RESPONSIBILITIES & TITLES
ENCOURAGE ACTS OF
LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS

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Round One

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Kanban starts where you are
... normally with an existing process

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Time keepers
Take note of the time….
• Start a pizza
• Time pizza is finished

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Make Hawaii Pizza
• 3 Pineapple
• 3 Ham
• Make as many as you can

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Let’s play!

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Stop!!! - Let’s measure

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Feedback

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Kanban Principles
START WITH WHAT YOU
DO NOW
AGREE TO PURSUE
INCREMENTAL,
EVOLUTIONARY
CHANGE
RESPECT THE
CURRENT PROCESS,
ROLES,
RESPONSIBILITIES &
TITLES
ENCOURAGE ACTS OF
LEADERSHIP AT ALL
LEVELS

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Six Core
Kanban
Practices
Visualize the workflow
Limit work in process (WIP)
Measure & optimize flow
Make process policies explicit
Implement feedback loops
Improve collaboratively, improve experimentally

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Make Policies explicit

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Visualize your workflow
& limit your
work in progress

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Round two

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Ok, let’s play again!

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Stop!!! - Let’s
measure

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Feedback

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Round
three

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Let’s extend the
game
Like in the real world,
some things change!

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New! New!! New!!!
“Pizza Rucola”
• Slim green post-its as rucola (a.k.a.
rocket salad)
• Each slice has 7 of them
• Warning! Rucola burns in the oven! It
must be added after baking the pizza.

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Now, we produce
based on orders
• Cash on Delivery: Points are given
only for fully delivered orders
• Orders can be picked up
from a central defined location
• Finished orders must be delivered
to another central location

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Ok, let’s play again!

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Stop!!! - Let’s
measure

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Feedback

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Round Four

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Ok, let’s play again!

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Stop!!! - Let’s
measure

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Wrap-up: Draw your workflow
1. Look back
to the game
2. Draw the flow
including WIP limits
3. Use your materials
to make it look nice

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Kanban Principles
START WITH WHAT YOU
DO NOW
AGREE TO PURSUE
INCREMENTAL,
EVOLUTIONARY
CHANGE
RESPECT THE
CURRENT PROCESS,
ROLES,
RESPONSIBILITIES &
TITLES
ENCOURAGE ACTS OF
LEADERSHIP AT ALL
LEVELS

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Six Core
Kanban
Practices
Visualize the workflow
Limit work in process (WIP)
Measure & optimize flow
Make process policies explicit
Implement feedback loops
Improve collaboratively, improve experimentally

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Kanban Pizza Game
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Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
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❖ Martin von Weissenberg
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