Deliver More, Stress Less with Kanban

Too many teams are working themselves to the bone day after day with no relief in sight. Too often, this unsustainable pace becomes permanent and work continues to pile on top of everything that's already in progress. Julia will share how Kanban helped teams at TBS and F5 Networks deliver more, reduce stress and tame the craziness of the new normal. Learn concepts you can adapt and apply to your context to make the everyday better!

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1. Deliver More,
   Stress Less
   with Kanban
   Julia Wester
   Improvement Coach,
   LeanKit
   www.leankit.com
   @everydaykanban
   everydaykanban.com
   

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4. Discovery was the first step
   @everydaykanban
   

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5. Over time, we learn to value starting more than finishing and we get in our own
   way. The Kanban Method taught me to stop starting, start finishing.
   @everydaykanban
   

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   Four Core Principles
   1. Start with what you do now
   2. Agree to pursue incremental,
   evolutionary change
   3. Respect the current condition
   4. Encourage acts of leadership… at
   all levels
   

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7. @everydaykanban
   Five Habits For Success
   1. Visualize the workflow
   2. Limit work in progress
   3. Manage flow
   4. Make process policies explicit
   5. Improve collaboratively
   (using models & the scientific method)
   

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8. @everydaykanban
   Our journey
   contained five
   key steps
   

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   1 Visualize the work – it helps everyone
   

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    Expedite
    Intangible
    Fixed Date
    Standard
    Classify work by Cost of Delay
    

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11. @everydaykanban
    How long will it take?
    Joe has a task that takes one day to complete. Assume
    he spends all of his time on his tasks, no interruptions.
    • If he focuses only on that task today when is the
    earliest he will deliver value?
    • If he divides his focus between two tasks equally,
    when is the earliest he would complete one task?
    • If he divides his focus between five tasks equally, when
    is the earliest he would complete one task?
    

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    3 Constrain work to permit focus
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    JW
    start Focus / commitment end
    Whether it is a standalone piece
    of work…
    or an entire project.
    

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    4 Set explicit policies about starting work
    On Deck Doing Review Done
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    Commit to Cross-Training
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15. @everydaykanban
    Specialization and
    small team size led to
    a focus on cross-
    training to remove
    bottlenecks.
    Jono Hey - sketchplanations.com
    Commit to Cross-Training
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    Things we agreed NOT to do
    

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    Estimate everything
    

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    Make all work the same size
    

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    Make assignments
    

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    Have time-consuming planning meetings
    

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21. At first I was skeptical, but over time I realized that
    this was the only way to go.
    I felt like I had a much higher confidence level in
    what would be delivered, when.
    And that helped me better set expectations.
    @everydaykanban
    Stacie Buckley, Director of Business Operations, NBA.com,
    Turner Sports (2012)
    

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22. @everydaykanban
    Our team’s journey was incremental, but transformative. The team began
    to be viewed as a good example for others to model.
    

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23. • Start with a problem
    • Respect the past
    • Experiment using
    the scientific
    method
    • Learn from any
    outcome
    • Start the cycle all
    over again
    @everydaykanban
    

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24. @everydaykanban
    

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25. www.leankit.com
    Julia Wester | @everydaykanban | everydaykanban.com
    

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