Using the Kanban Method to Supercharge Your Organization

Solve Your Delivery Challenges, Transform Your Organization and Start Improving Continuously

using The Kanban Method

Your Speaker

Dave WhiteTechnical Program DirectorImaginet Resources Corp. - Microsoft Partner• Management Board - Lean-Kanban University• Advisory Board - LKU’s Accredited Kanban

Training program– Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)– Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP)

• numerous Microsoft certifications – Microsoft Certified Trainer

• 15 years of experience• specializes in helping organizations mature their

software development and information technology practices

• passionate about Application Lifecycle Management tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly talks and teaches on a wide range of ALM topics

http://www.agileramblings.com

Why You Are Looking

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Your Team’s Problems

Release Date: in 9-12 months

“We don’t have staff for that project/work”

Lead time for Feature: 12 months

ETA of Bug Fix: ???

“That isn’t what we wanted.”

“We have to get this out right away!”

“The business unit built that?”

“That feature doesn’t matter anymore.”

“We’re really late.”

“We’re waiting on other teams.”

“We’ve got 100s of bugs waiting.”

Your Problems

We don’t know how to change.

It is so hard to find people for our team!

We take a big hit when someone leaves.

We can’t adapt to changing business conditions fast enough.

Our business partners are demanding greater predictability.

We don’t manage risk in our projects well enough.

“We’ve tried Agile and it didn’t work.”

There is so much demand from the business, but I can’t grow my team.

Problems

• Quality problems eat up money/time/opportunity

• Can’t deliver features quickly• Product is expensive to

own/maintain

We need• More Capacity• Usually with same or

less resources

Another Problem

We’ve been

trying to fix this for

years!

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Your Journey

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You are here because…

We have no process…

Waterfall isn’t working…“If we just do it better…”

Scrum is better but not meeting your expectations

“We do Scrum but…”

And…

Adoption is hard!

Time

Cap

ab

ility

kaizen

kaikaku

Different Approaches to Change

Something different…

KanbanMethod

WAIT!!

kanban?

kanban system?

Kanban Method?

The Kanban Method is…

…an approach to incremental, evolutionary process change for organizations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)

Kanban Method

So Why The Kanban Method• Designed to…

• Be context sensitive• Foster organizational learning• Be evolutionary

• Simple rules to govern complex systems• Teams of people are systems

• Agile methods can emerge• Fully embraces Agile Manifesto

• Lean methods can emerge• Fully embraces Lean Software

Development Principles

• Tactic-agnostic

• Catalyst for organizational improvement

kaizen

To make better

Kanban Method

… and it’s easy to get started

Kanban Method

agile

lean

• 4 principles• 6 practices

Kanban Method Principles

start with what you do now

agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change

initially, respect current roles, responsibilities & job titles

encourage acts of leadership

6 CORE PRACTICES

visualize

limit WIP

manage flow

make process policies

explicit

develop feedback mechanisms

improve collaboratively

Visualize

Limit WIP

Manage Flow

Make Process Policies Explicit

Explicit Policies

Explicit Policies

Develop Feedback Mechanisms

Improve Collaboratively with Science!

WHY ARE WE DOING ALL THIS?

To create a LEARNING capability in our organization that enables CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT!

We must…• Have situational awareness• Have time to discover and implement kaizen

opportunities• Create theories and experiment • Give ourselves opportunities to fail • Learn from your mistakes

Important Points

Kanban Method does not change your underlying SDLC– Only scheduling and prioritization are changed to start– The underlying kanban system will be a model of what you

currently do

We want to ensure work starts and completes as soon as possible

– Interrupts are expensive– Stop starting, start finishing, capture ROI– Frequent prioritization and execution is more Agile– On-demand is MOST Agile

The Benefits I’ve Seen

• Better software• More effective teams• Deeper understanding of

demand and capacity• Constantly improving teams• Exposed Constraints

Happy People

Better Teams = Better Business

• Predictability• Agility• Risk Management• Governance• Change Management

Predictability

Achieved through reduced variability

Variability is reduced through a deep understanding of the work, the team and a focus on smooth flow

Business Agility

Determined by Time

ReplenishmentDeliveryLead-time

Kanban Method allows the decoupling of replenishment, delivery and lead time to enable tailoring of process to the dynamics of the business domain

Risk Management

Kanban system exposes business risk in terms of type, quantity and rate of demand

– Costs & benefits of frequent interaction with upstream and downstream partners

Knowledge coupled with capability allows us to mitigate risk

Visualization of work allows quantitative understanding of current capability to deliver on current demand

Governance

Governance is achieved in a Kanban Method implementation through…

• Boards• Explicit Policies• Stand-up• Ops Reviews• Managing change

as work items

Change Management

In a Kanban Method implementation change is…

• Emergent• Initiated from

within• Often managed

as work

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Myths About Kanban

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Myth #1

Kanban Method is an Agile Methodology

Myth #2

Kanban Method competes directly with Scrum

Myth #3

Kanban doesn’t have iterations

Myth #4

Kanban works for Dev Ops, not for projects

Myth #4

Kanban is a mini-waterfall methodology

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Use The Tools You Already Have

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Team Foundation Server 2012

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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.

Tools Are Enablers

Visualize

Tools Are Enablers

Visualize

CFD here

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How You Can Get Here

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Where to Start

1. Find a Leader2. Get Foundational

Knowledge3. Visualize Your Work4. Limit your WIP5. Focus on HIGH Quality

Call to Action

• Engage• Attend our Accredited Core Kanban class with our

Visual Studio day• Reach out to Dave

• @agileramblings or dwhite@imaginet.com

• Join the Community!• Lean-Kanban University• Come see us at Lean Kanban North America 2013 in Chicago!• kanbandev group (Yahoo)• Limited WIP Society or your local Kanban User Group

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