1. Kanban for software Development –
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Manoj K G
Founder and Director, TeamSuccesso
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2. Reference
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3. Agenda
• History of Kanban
• Lean principles
• Introduction to Kanban
• Practices in Kanban
• Kanban for event driven development
• Advantages with Kanban
• Implementing Kanban
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4. Kanban
Source: http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban
• originates from Japanese, and translates roughly as "signboard.
• usually a physical card in a clear plastic envelope that instructs the
moving or creating of parts in a "pull" production system
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5. Kanban in Toyota Production System (TPS)
http://www.toyotatr.com/?m=p&pid=19
Pull system - eliminates waste of waiting and waste of overproduction
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6. Kanban in Toyota Production System (TPS)
Source: http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban
Pull system - eliminates waste of waiting and waste of overproduction
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7. Lean principles
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8. Agile Software Methodologies
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9. The Kanban method, as formulated by David J. Anderson, is an approach to
incremental, evolutionary process and systems change for
organizations.
a way to organize the chaos by making the need for prioritization and focus clear.
a way to uncover workflow and process problems so you may solve them in
order to deliver more consistently to your client/customer/etc.
Kanban accomplishes these things by introducing constraints into the system to
optimize the flow of value.
Flow is king. http://www.everydaykanban.com/what-is-kanban/
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10. Stop starting and start
finishing!

11. Core practices in Kanban
1. Visualize
2. Limit Work-In-Progress
3. Manage Flow
4. Make Process policies explicit
5. Improve Collaboratively
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12. Visualize your work flow
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13. Throughput
Capacity Productivity
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14. Limit your WIP
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15. WIP
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16. Lead time
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17. Make Process policies explicit
Define classes of service
- Defined based on business impact
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18. Expedite
Policies
Limit WIP to 1
Time to deliver < 24 Hrs
No misses
e.g.: Production critical
issues
Fixed delivery date
Policies
Delivery before due date
99 % on time delivery
e.g.: Feature to support an
event, compliance related
changes
Standard class
Policies
4 week lead time for
complex issues
2 week lead time for
simple issue
85% on time delivery
e.g. change requests,
enhancement requests
Intangible
Policies
e.g.: Version upgrades
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19. Kanban for Event driven
software development
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20. Some characteristics of Event Driven Development
• Rapidly changing priorities
• Increase in the waste with too many stories for the development
• The need for faster feedbacks - Shorter releases
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21. • Helpdesk/Support
activities (Initiated by an
event, under SLA)
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22. Application support and maintenance
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23. Market driven software development
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24. Advantages with Kanban
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25. Teamwork
Encourages Swarming -leading to collaboration
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26. kaizen culture
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27. Implementing Kanban
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28. Thank you
Mail- manojwky@gmail.com
Blog - www.techbudha.com
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/manoj-k-g/12/811/495
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