The Kanban Kick-start Field Guide is a practical guide to help a team get in control of their current situation through the Kanban method. It gathers the experience from introducing Kanban to 50+ teams at Sandvik IT. Version 1.0 of the field guide, published under a Creative Common License, is now available. Get more details on leanagileprojects.blogspot.se…

I’m relatively new in my current job — working on 6 months now. I was speaking with another manager and the conversation drifted to the first changes my team implemented after I joined. But, as every good change agent knows, before you implement changes, you have to orient and observe.

When I came aboard, my team had a sizable backlog and every feature request and bug report was assigned out to members of my team of 8. New items came in daily and items were assigned as soon as they…

Hi gang,

I just completed and posted the downloadable visual-notes for David's great Kanban book.

I hope you find them to be a useful and compelling reference guide. 

I really enjoyed re-reading this book, for the purpose of creating these notes. And of course, I learned so much more with this second reading.

Also, I was challenged by a friend to work with some constraints to broaden my creative skills.…

Hi gang,

I am re-reading the Kanban book to create my visual-one-page-summary-book-notes for this awesome read.

Thought I would share the real time development of this as I work on it over the next several nights.

You can see the first cut here. 

Cheers. Todd

HI all, A newbie here to what looks like a useful set of resources. I love creating visual-one-page-summary-book notes for great books on lean and business topics. I just completed the read for Impact Mapping. It's not Kanban, but I think it's an excellent way to start off project in a visual manner. View or download my digital, visual poster describing the book and steps to create an impact map. Cheers. -Todd

Kanban Resources website provides the online base of references to the best Kanban books, articles, blogs and presentations published by experts in Kanban methodology. Now the highest quality, up-to-date publications are available in one place.

Written in direct collaboration with Richard Hensley (McKesson AVP).

Summary - a “fly-over” of Richard Hensley’s experience over the last three years, as he leads a lean business and product development transformation, working with business and product development leaders to “pull the quality lever” within three business units at McKesson. So how might Business and Technology peacefully co-creating look? What are some of the characteristics to key on? How…

In a Kanban system you introduce WIP limits at each step of the value flow. This means, that if you get stuck at any one step in the flow and things are not moving forward, then all those who operate in earlier stages of the system enter a holding pattern. If you’re explaining Kanban to managers or executives, this is usually the point that makes them take a sharp turn off of the Lean highway! They mentally write off the whole concept of Kanban because “they don’t want anyone sitting idle.”…

Kanban Library is out! : 

"Understanding the basic elements of Kanban is a vital step in boosting your productivity with KanbanTool. Until now resources on Kanban have been scattered across many websites, and to help you with research, learning and sharing knowledge, we have decided to separate the wheat from the chaff and created a robust collection of links to the best resources from Kanban leaders and…

(Original song “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO)

Yeah, yeah 

When I iterate 

Managers be sayin, “Damn, that’s great!” 

Velocity increase 

With how often I release, yeah 

This is how I roll 

I got production in control 

When you got a good WIP limit 

No reason not to stay in it

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – I burn down

Ahhhh –…

When I last posted on this blog, I was about to depart for the House of Mouse. Yep, DisneyWorld. The Magic Kingdom, to be precise. You might wonder why i’m blathering on about my vacation in my Kanban blog. However, an amusement park is the perfect place to find Kanban happening out in the wild. Talk about your EverydayKanban! For our case study, let’s look at roller coaster ride. But, first, a key to get our parallels drawn……

We have just had a huge re-organization in our company just last week!

People have been anxious and anxiety levels have been high all last month - at all levels.

I was part of the PMO team, that looked into a suite of products spread over 3 geographies (and time zones).

We like(d) to believe that we were following Scrum as the methodology to execute and orchestrate this complex Suite Release. But the fact is that we have changed the dates of the release at least 4 times…

One of the reasons many groups implement Kanban is to figure out how to deliver more consistently. Kanban, as well as many other methods/processes, is often chosen and implemented by the management or leadership layer and the values and goals are communicated down to developers or other individual contributors.

Part of the discussion between management and developers will focus on then end goal of streamlining cycle times as much as possible in order to deliver more consistently. This…

Hey delivery team, customer, project manager… what do you value? What I value has evolved over time. At one point I couldn’t have succinctly answered that question. Now it is crystal clear and seems like the pinnacle of common sense for a manager of a delivery team like me.

I value finishing work over starting work.

This simple realization has completely changed my viewpoint on how I approach nearly all aspects of my job. Now that I have had this…

Zum 39. Mal veranstaltet SwissICT das SCRUM Breakfast. Das SCRUM Breakfast ist ein kostenloses Treffen für alle, die sich zum Thema Software-Produktion, - Entwicklung und -Projektmanagement austauschen möchten. Ich habe mehrere Male teilgenommen, das letzte Mal im 2010. Ich war sehr überrascht, wie viele Personen heute teilnahmen, 30 oder…