Kanban Styleat

The NET-A-PORTER Group

David Lowe

THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP "the leading fashion, media and commerce group whose aim is to

make the world a more stylish place through entrepreneurship,

innovation, creative thinking, pioneering technology and

challenging the norm."

Over 500 leading designersShip to over 170 countries

9m visitors/month

… all 3 brands 100% online

“A tech company that sells fashion”

The

Team

“For me, the even flow, the less worrying about how long things

were going to take, and the more attention to actually getting things

done PROPERLY, were the main reasons to try Kanban.”

Developer

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“It has revolutionised the way our stream works: enabling us to ship

more, quicker, and give the team a higher level of energy and purpose

around each story they tackle.”

Product Owner

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“I’ve have found it far easier to get buy in from development teams …

They like the flexibility it brings and particularly like the focus on getting

things to done.””

“Kanban boards are better at highlighting pain points in a team’s

processes””

“The process has been liberating. We’re no longer bound by iteration commitments, and so it’s easier to be realistic about moving priorities and delivery. If only as an exercise for the team to redesign the way

they work, it has been worthwhile.”

“Most POs will, when asked to prioritise work for an upcoming

sprint, reserve the right to change anything that hasn’t been started after planning by the team. With Kanban, we don’t have to worry about that affecting the team’s ability to deliver on their sprint

commitment.”

“The flexibility of the format works as long as you keep other measures and check-ins in place. For example,

monitoring lead times, managing blockers, and have regular

sizing/planning/retros in place.””

“Limited knowledge and experience of Kanban causes nervousness … We found it hard to get buy-in from our

PO”

“… difficult to communicate timescales for a feature set or story,

or to build any real confidence in the team’s ability to deliver””

“It can be tricky. Getting the team to keep within WIP limits, swarm on stories to get them complete, and keep to the backlog priority can be

challenging.”

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“How can we keep track of progress for all roles?”

“How can we report progress back to the various teams/departments?”

“How can we make sure team members aren’t being overloaded?”

“It is a refreshing, potentially revolutionary, way of working to

recruit more effectively”

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