Kanban

An introductory talk on Kanban process given at the Highgroove Studios Tech Talk day on April 13, 2012.

The focus was on how the Kanban process works and where it comes from, with some minor emphasis on available tools and why you might switch from an existing workflow.

Transcript

1. Kanban
2. WILL FARRINGTON @wfarr github.com/wfarr
3. Kanban
4. What is Kanban
5. Visual Process Management
6. Incremental Evolutionary Change
7. History Lesson
8. 1940-1950
9. Toyota
10. Assembly Lines
11. GTD JIT
12. $THING IS HARD
13. LIMIT $THINGS
14. Doing a Little
15. a little bit at a time
16. LOTS EVENTUALLY
17. 4 Basic Stages
18. BACKLOG
19. I can work on it someday
20. NEXT
21. I can work on it right now
22. WIP
23. I’ve already started working on it
24. DONE
26. You Can Make Your Own Steps
27. Start with the Basics Add More as Needed
28. Process
30. Left to Right
31. I WANT TO DO A $THING
32. Has the WIP Limit Been Met?
33. YES: SWARM!
34. NO: NEXT!
35. Can I Pull Something from Next?
36. YES: PULL IT!
37. NO: &$%@!
38. Make Something in the Backlog Workable
39. I Finished the Thing!
40. Move it to Done
41. Rinse Repeat
42. ad infinitum
43. Monitor
44. have someone police the kanban board
45. manage each other enforce the rules
46. Evaluate State from Right to Left
47. Identify Problems Fix Them
48. Gotchas
49. Always Pull the First Thing from Next
50. If the First Thing is Not the Right Thing PRIORITIZE WORK
51. Never Pull a New Thing if the WIP Limit is Met
52. If WIP is Full...
53. BIG
54. &$#%ING
55. PROBLEM
56. SWARM AND FIX
57. Follow the Rules Use the System
58. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER
59. NEVER IGNORE THE RULES
60. PROCESS FOR CHANGE
61. USE THE PROCESS
62. WHY USE KANBAN
63. proven process
64. a lot like “Agile”
65. it will make all your wildest dreams come true maybe
66. EXPLORE BOTTLENECKS
67. FIND INEFFICIENCY
68. MAKE EFFICIENCY
69. TOOLS
70. YOUR WALL
71. try starting with a physical board
72. KANBAN PAD
73. KANBAN TOOL
74. LEANIT KANBAN
75. AGILE ZEN
76. QUESTIONS?
77. WILL FARRINGTON HIGHGROOVE STUDIOS @wfarr | github.com/wfarr speakerdeck.com/u/wfarr/p/kanban