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Introduction to The Kanban Method Discover how the Kanban Method can Kick Start a Culture of Continuous Improvement for Your Organization
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Introduction to The Kanban Method
Discover how the Kanban Method can Kick Start a Culture of Continuous Improvement
forYour Organization
Your Speaker
Dave WhiteTechnical Program DirectorImaginet Resources Corp. - Microsoft Partner• Management Board - Lean-Kanban University• Advisory Board - LKU’s Accredited Kanban
Training program– Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)– Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP)
• numerous Microsoft certifications – Microsoft Certified Trainer
• 15 years of experience• specializes in helping organizations mature their
software development and information technology practices
• passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly talks and teaches on a wide range of ALM topics
http://www.agileramblings.com
Why Are You Here?
X
Symptom
Release Date: in 9-12 months
“We don’t have staff for that project/work”
Lead time for Feature: 12 months
ETA of Bug Fix: ???
“That isn’t what we wanted.”
“We have to get this out right away!”
“The business unit built that?”
“That feature doesn’t matter anymore.”
“We’re really late.”
“We’re waiting on other teams.”
“We’ve got 100s of bugs waiting.”
Problem
Lots of work, not enough capacity• Quality suffers• Features delayed• Technical debt• How much…
• Work??• Capacity??
Disengaged people!
Another Problem
Why is this still a problem?
X
What Have You Tried?
X
XX
X
X
What We’ve Tried So Far
We’ve tried…• Chaos is … chaotic
• Waterfall not well suited• Large batch, single pass,
long duration workflow
“If we just do it better…”
• Scrum is well suited• prescriptive without
understanding context
And…
Adoption is hard!(People are weird!)
Something different…
KanbanMethod
WAIT!!
kanban?
kanban system?
Kanban Method?
The Kanban Method is…
…an approach to incremental, evolutionary process change for organizations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)
Kanban Method allows us to…
Our motivation for building kanban systems is to
prevent overburdening,
control variability in flow
and encourage an evolutionary approach to change
murimura
What causes overburdening and variation?
1. Invisible work2. Non-instant availability of specialist skills or
collaborators3. Information fails to arrive before it is needed4. Hidden/Implicit classes of service that cause
work to be interrupted to process other work5. Variety in work (complexity & size)6. Changing priorities related to variety in risks
associated with work (e.g. cost of delay)7. Capacity constrained specialist skilled
workers or other resources
Are any of these present in your work environment?
Organizational Evolution
So Why The Kanban Method• Designed to…
• Be context sensitive• Foster organizational learning• Be evolutionary
• Simple rules to govern complex systems• Teams of people are systems
• Agile methods can emerge• Fully embraces Agile Manifesto
• Lean methods can emerge• Fully embraces Lean Software
Development Principles
• Tactic-agnostic
• Catalyst for organizational improvement
kaizen
To make better
Kanban Method
… and it’s easy to get started
Kanban Method
agile
lean
• 4 principles• 6 practices
Kanban Method Principles
start with what you do now
agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change
initially, respect current roles, responsibilities & job titles
encourage acts of leadership
6 CORE PRACTICES
visualize
limit WIP
manage flow
make process policies
explicit
develop feedback mechanisms
improve collaboratively
Visualize
Visualize
Limit WIP
Limit WIP
Manage Flow
Make Process Policies Explicit
Explicit Policies
Explicit Policies
Develop Feedback Mechanisms
Improve Collaboratively with Science!
WHY ARE WE DOING ALL THIS?
To create a LEARNING capability in our organization that enables CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT!
We must…• Have time to discover and implement kaizen
opportunities• Create theories and experiment • Give ourselves opportunities to fail • Learn from your mistakes
The Benefits You’ll Experience
• Deeper understanding of demand and capacity
• Constantly improving teams• Exposed constraints• Increased predictability• Reduced overburdening
Happy People
Better Teams = Better Business
• Predictability• Agility• Risk Management• Governance• Change Management
Kaizen Opportunities
For development teams, three areas often need improvements:
ProcessThe Kanban Method will expose process challenges
TechnicalVisualization of work will allow for the capture of metrics that point to technical limitations
Development PlatformVisualization of workflow will lead to platform improvement opportunities
Inter-dependant
ProcessBottle necks & constraints, hand-offs, overburdening, multi-
tasking, wait times
TechnicalUnit Testing, SOLID, DI, MVC,
Technical debt
Development Platform
Automation (build, quality, collaboration)
Institutional memory, risk mitigation
Solutions Are Just Waiting to be Discovered
• Work is understood!• Designed to understand demand• Discover capacity• People improve the
system
• People are engaged!• Empowered• Own the improvements• Pull work
• Solving Our Problem• Our processes are
important• Learning-focused
approach
X
My Tools
X
XX
X
X
Team Foundation Server 2012
Team Foundation Server 2012
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.
Kanban on TFS 2012
Kanban on TFS starts with…
http://vsarkanbanguide.codeplex.com/
https://tfs.visualstudio.com/
Ability to track work
Ability to visualize work and flow
Tools Are Enablers
Work Items – The data that is important to you
Tools Are Enablers
Visualize
Tools Are Enablers
Visualize
CFD here
Holistic System
X
How You Can Get Here
X
XX
X
X
Where to Start
1. Find a Leader2. Get Foundational
Knowledge3. Visualize Your Work4. Limit your WIP5. Focus on HIGH Quality
Call to Action
• Engage• Attend our Accredited Core Kanban class with our
Visual Studio day• Reach out to Dave
• @agileramblings or [email protected]
• Join the Community!• Lean-Kanban University• Visit Lean Kanban North America 2014 in San Francisco!• kanbandev group (Yahoo)• Limited WIP Society or your local Kanban User Group
What to do next?
Imaginet’s New Kanban Website!
Visit Imaginet’s Kanban website for all your Kanban needs!
http://bit.ly/10WztoE
Attend a Public Imaginet Kanban Course
Visit our training page for info!
Accredited Core Kanban (2-days)Sept. 11-12, 2013Dallas (Irving, TX)
$1375/student
Accredited Core Kanban /w TFS 2012 (3-days)Sept. 11-13, 2013Dallas (Irving, TX)
$1875/student
Private class? Email us at [email protected]
http://bit.ly/10WzvNn
Upcoming Kanban Webinars
Introduction to KanbanAugust 15 (12:00-1:00pm CT)
Thank you
http://www.imaginet.comhttp://www.imaginet.com/kanban
http://www.leankanbanuniversity.com
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http://tfs.visualstudio.com
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