Kanban - Introduction 2014-10-17, Tomas Rybing, Aptilo Networks ”Kanban is a method for managing knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the team members. In this approach, the process, from definition of a task to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see and team members pull work from a queue”, from Wikipedia - ”Kanban (development)”
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Kanban - Introduction
2014-10-17, Tomas Rybing, Aptilo Networks
”Kanban is a method for managing knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the team members. In this approach, the process, from
definition of a task to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see and team members pull work from a queue”, from Wikipedia - ”Kanban (development)”
Agenda• Background - Lean
• Kanban and theories behind
• Context switching
• Little’s law
• Theory of constraints
• Feedback loops
• Kanban - Principles
• Visualize
• Limit WIP
• Manage flow
• Other - Daily stand-up, planning, estimation, retrospectives and priority pyramid
• Summary
Kanban is Japanese and means ”sign” or ”index card”, this picture taken from the book ”The Toyota way”
Background - Lean• Lean principles originates from Toyota Production
System (TPS)
• Started in Japan after WW2, huge investments for ”moving assembly line” wasn’t possible
• Instead supermarkets were studied, they filled their stock only when it was close to become empty
• JIT (Just In Time) was born. Don’t build stock it will hide problems in your process