Practical Kanban Tutorial
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Tutorial
Practical Kanban
Karl Scotland
agile coach
• 15 years of experience covering
development, project management, team
leadership, coaching and training.
• Successfully applying Agile methods for
the last 10 years.
• Championed Agile and Lean Thinking with
the BBC, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting.
• Founding member of the Lean Software
and Systems Consortium and the Limited
WIP Society.
kscotland@rallydev.com
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WHY
KANBAN?
What are the
challenges you are
facing in your context?
Work In
Process
Visualisation Cadence
Workflow
Systems Learning
Thinking
Flow
Value
Capability
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Purpose
Inter-
Elements
Connections
Management
Thinking
Change
Analysis
System
Performance
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Purpose
Measures
Method
YOUR
PURPOSE
What is the
purpose of your
organisation and
your process?
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Concepts
Vision Value
Process
Flow
Team
People Capability
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Flow
Value Capability
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Value
Flow
Capability
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YOUR
APPROACH
What would it take
to flow value though
Capability teams?
HANDS ON
DOT GAME
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Aspects
Workflow
Visualisation
Work in Process
Cadence
Learning
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YOUR
WORKFLOW
What does your
workflow look like?
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YOUR
VISUALS
How would you
visualise your
work?
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Work Items Stage 1 Stage 2 … Stage n Done
In In In
Queue Process Queue Process Queue Process
Work Items Stage 1 Stage 2 … Stage n Done
In In In
Queue Process Queue Process Queue Process
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Work Items Stage 1 Stage 2 … Stage n Done
In In In
Queue Process Queue Process Queue Process
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YOUR
WIP
What Work In
Process do you
have?
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YOUR
CADENCE
How do you
coordinate your
work?
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Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi,
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
High
Anxiety
Skills
Boredom
Low High
Ability
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Purpose Data
People
Process
http://www.systems-thinking.org/pppd/pppd.htm
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YOUR
LEARNING
How will you
improve your
capability against
purpose?
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Thank you!
Email: kscotland@rallydev.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kjscotland
Blog: http://availagility.co.uk
LWS: http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/
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