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Kanban Flight Levels
Dr. Klaus Leopold!web: www.LEANability.com!blog: www.klausleopold.com!mail: [email protected]: @klausleopold!
Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference, Nov 5, 2013!
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Principles!1. Start with what you do now!2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change!3. Initially, respect current processes, roles, responsibilities and job titles!4. Encourage leadership on all levels in the organization
Practices!1. Make work visible!
2. Limit work in progress (WIP)!
3. Manage flow!4. Make process policies explicit!
5. Implement feedback mechanisms!
6. Improve collaboratively (using models)
Where does this fit into your company?
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Kanban Flight Levels?
"We would like to introduce the new Agile method Kanban to improve our team performance."!
• Kanban is NOT an Agile method!- ...companies improve their agility with Kanban!
• Kanban DOES NOT focus on teams!- ...can be applied on team-level!
• Flight Levels is a communication tool!- shows the possibilities you have with Kanban!- can be used to clarify where to start with Kanban
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DevelopmentDesign Test
TEAM/DEPARTMENT
flight level 1
!! URGENT !!
: organizational unit, uncoordinated input
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fact sheet: flight level 1
• main characteristics!- team or department level!- input is not coordinated!- push from outside!- a lot of work on the table
• advantages!- simple start, "Guerrilla Kanban"!- improved visibility & communication
- focus on finishing work!- improved team efficiency
- many expedite requests!- a lot of re-prioritization
• disadvantages!- working on the wrong things!- imbalance of demand and capability
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DevelopmentDesign Test
TEAM/DEPARTMENT
WITH INPUT QUEUE
SYSTEMInput
LIMITED INPUT QUEUE
flight level 2: organizational unit with coordinated input
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fact sheet: flight level 2
• advantages!- demand and capability is being balanced!- working on the right things more efficiently!- less re-prioritization, less expedite work
• main characteristics!- team or department level!- input is coordinated!- pull from the outside/upstream!- modern change management
required
• disadvantages!- local optimization
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marketing
sw dev
it ops
sw dev
sales
hw devpm
it ops
prod dev
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team 1
team 2
team 3
team 4
customer wish: write a love letter
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customer wish: write a love letter
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Clarification Realization Delivery CompletionSales
customer input customer value
DevelopmentDesign Test
flight level 3: value stream
TEAM/DEPARTMENT
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fact sheet: flight level 3• main characteristics!
- optimization of (parts of)the value stream!
- (more) global optimization!- pull across the value stream!- modern change management
required• advantages!
- optimization of the interaction of teams/departments!- doing the right thing at the right time!- significant reduction of queue sizes!- balancing demand vs. capability across the value stream
• disadvantages!- often focus on project goals only
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Clarification Realization Delivery CompletionSales
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Clarification Realization Delivery CompletionSales
Clarification Realization Delivery CompletionSales
Development
Marketing
DeliveryResearchProduct 1
Development
Marketing
DeliveryResearchProduct 2
flight level 4: portfolio
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• advantages!- making conscious business decisions about projects/customers!- focus on business goals and not on project goals !- stop starting, start finishing of projects
• main characteristics!- optimization of portfolio!- multi-project, multi-customer
risk decisions!- more stop-and-go than flow!- often quite easy to start with
fact sheet: flight level 4
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Exampleflight level 3!must be a huge system!!how do they coordinate?
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Department 1
jj jjj
jj
Department 2
Department 3
Department 4
Department 5
Department 6
Department 7
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Department 1
j jj
jj
jj
j j j
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Department 1
jjj
jjjj
j jj
Department 2
Department 3
jj j
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Conclusions• the flight levels model...!
- is a communication tool!- shows what's possible with Kanban!- helps to clarify where to start with Kanban!
• flight levels is NOT a maturity model!- Kanban practices on flight level 1 could be deeper than
on flight level 3!
• flight level 1: organizational unit, uncoordinated input!• flight level 2: organizational unit, coordinated input!• flight level 3: value stream!• flight level 4: portfolio
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