Shashank Kapoor & Neha Rahaman Presentation for Agile Impact Conference 2018 Day 1. "Learning Kanban hands on!"

1. Mavericks
Consulting
Kanban 1’s Game!

2. Neha Rahaman
Product Strategist
Agile practitioner and an Enabler. She loves to ideate and build
products that bring about long lasting impactful changes to the society.
She has extensive experience working with startups as well as big
enterprises in creating innovative solutions, playing multiple roles from
a Product strategist to an Agile coach.
She has worked in 3 different continents and delivered valuable IT
products and managed large IT projects to create real business value
on time.
Neha is a strong advocate of equal rights and Women empowerment.
She loves to travel and learn about new cultures and when she is not
traveling or working she spends her time doodling or painting.
www.linkedin.com/in/neha-rahaman

3. Shashank Kapoor
Principal Consultant, Agile Coach
What I love doing most is delivering real and measurable value for
businesses. Have transformed startups as well as 200 year old
enterprises, to build lasting and valuable IT products and platforms,
whether it’s for generating new revenue or safeguarding and building
upon existing one.
I Don't believe in "Doing Agile" but Being agile, and am a strong believer
in how Agile and Lean methodologies applied with design thinking
principles in large enterprises can bring about lasting impactful change.
I also have extensive experience in Enabling organisations adopt agile
and have coached Product Owners/Managers and agile
Program/Portfolio Managers in some of the biggest organisations
across the world.
www.linkedin.com/in/shashank-kapoor

4. What is a Kanban?

5. Kanban is Japanese for ‘Visual Signal’ or Cards

6. Kanban has 4 Core Principles
Visualize your
work
Limit your work Focus on flow Continuous
improvement

7. Let’s Play

8. How to play
1. Each table has 4 people - You are a team of BA, Dev, QA and PO
a. Identify your roles
2. Each person in the team should have 6 dices with them - Dices help
you work
3. Like every development cycle we will have Iterations and each
Iteration will be 10 days
4. Every day everyone in the team rolls all the 6 dices
5. Every 1 rolled each day is an amount of work done by you/your role
Let’s play!

9. 3

10. 3
BA DEV QA PO
Work gets done on the higher Priority story
first
Order of priority remains the same
throughout
3

11. Before works begin
We need to have stories to work on
BAs in each team will help create work
1. Each BA will create 3 stories to begin with
2. Roll a dice and the number rolled is the story point on the story
3. Repeat step 2 2-times
So team now you have 3 stories to work on
Let’s play!

12. Rule for this Iteration
No talking among each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 1

13. Retrospective

14. Rule for this Iteration
No talking among each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 2

15. Retrospective

16. Creating Stories
1. Every 1 you roll, you can chose to create a story using it
2. If you chose to create a story, roll one more dice again to reveal to
the story point against the new story
3. This story goes to the bottom of the backlog
4. Only BAs can create story

17. Rule for this Iteration
No talking among each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 3

18. Retrospective

19. Rule for this Iteration
No talking among each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 4

20. Retrospective

21. 1. BA can use the 1’s to now split a story as well
2. When a BA rolls a 1 they now have 3 choices
a. Create a Story
b. Work on a story
c. Split a story
3. Allowed Splits
a. 6 - 3,3
b. 5 - 3,2
c. 4 - 2,2
d. 3 - 2,1
e. 2 - 1,1
f. 1 - Can’t be split
4. The bigger story will have the higher priority
Splitting

22. Rule for this Iteration
No talking among each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 5

23. Retrospective

24. Rule for this Iteration
You can now talk to each other
Let’s play!
Iteration 6

25. Retrospective

26. 1. Team members can help each other
2. You give your dice to the one you want to help
3. The number of dice you give, equal number of dice has to be kept
aside and not used that day
i. Example -
ii. Give 1 Keep 1 aside
iii. Give 2 Keep 2 aside
iv. Give 3 Keep 3 aside
4. Everyday you can decide who to help and how much to help
Helping

27. Rule for this Iteration
Decide who to help in not more than 10 sec
Let’s play!
Iteration 7

28. Rule for this Iteration
Let’s play!
Iteration 8
Decide who to help in not more than 10 sec

29. Retrospective

30. 1. Each role has a work limit of 2 story cards
2. One can not have more than 2 story cards in front of them
3. If you have finished your work on a card but the next person already
has 2 in front of them then you cannot move the card to them
WIP Limits

31. Rule for this Iteration
Let’s play!
Iteration 9
Decide who to help in not more than 10 sec

32. Retrospective

33. Rule for this Iteration
Let’s play!
Iteration 10
Decide who to help in not more than 10 sec

34. Retrospective

35. Neha Rahaman
Shashank Kapoor
Thank You!

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