Kanban - JIRA

Atlassian JIRA has been used in many development shops to better track issues and use the latest and greatest Agile methodologies using the GreenHopper addon.

Often the Agile capabilities used by people who are missing the theoretical knowledge behind what is Kanban and Scrum.

This presentation includes a very short introduction to Kanban theory and methodology, concluding with how these theories are implemented in JIRA itself.

Transcript

1. Kanban 看板
2. Taiichi Ohno father of the Toyota Production System defined Kanban in 1940s
3. Kanban A visual signal used in pull systems. Usually in the form of a card on a board. Plan Do Check Act
4. Pull System Production and inventory moves are only done when consumed or signalled by the point of usage.
5. Tasks are received based on a pre-existing schedule, not based on actual task completion. Push System
6. Batch size issues Quantity of material and/or time Increase in WIP inventory, lead time, safety time, finished stock levels. Decrease in quality and throughput. small batch large batch
7. Smaller batch sizes benefits small batches move much faster
8. Backlog I can work on it someday Next I can work on it right now WIP I am working on it Done Ship it! a Kanban Workflow
9. A Kanban board bit.ly/kanban-simulator
10. Identify bottlenecks
11. cumulative flow lead time cycle time work finished over period time from inception to delivery time from start to delivery
12. Cumulative Flow Diagram
13. Kanban Principles Visualize Limit WIP Manage flow Make policies explicit Implement feedback loops Collaborative Kaizen 改善
14. Kanban in JIRA Agile Visualize Flow Horizontal Swimlanes Limit WIP Analyze Trends
15. Recommended Books
16. www.devops.co.il Evgeny Zislis about.me/kesor
17. ? bit.ly/kanban-jira