This presentation discusses IBM Rational Insight and how it was leveraged to provide reports with metrics supporting the adoption of the Kanban Method, by teams using IBM Rational Team Concert.

1. Improving Predictability and Efficiency with
Kanban Metrics using Rational Insight
Marc J. Nehme, Rational Reporting Engineer, Master Certified IT Specialist, @marc_nehme
Paulo Cezar Lacerda Neto, IT Specialist
Luiz Augusto Mota De Souza, IT Specialist
Session 1868
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3. Agenda
 Challenges in Enterprise Reporting
 Rational Insight
 Kanban Method
 Kanban Metrics
 Demonstration
 Q&A
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4. Enterprise Reporting Challenges
 Organizational process
 Different departments, different processes, not unified
 Various disparate data sources
 Roll-up of data doesn't compare well
 Lack of visibility into organization metrics
 Manual process
 High Level of effort / Time consuming = $
 Inaccurate / unreliable data
 Outdated metrics
 Individual product reporting
 Lack of functionality/customization
 Training & Resources = $
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5. Rational Insight
IBM Rational’s Performance Measurement Offering
 An Enterprise Reporting solution that gets consistent metrics from across an organization
to objectively measure status and progress
 Measure program, project, and team-level progress against pre-defined business
objectives through multiple views
Identify high-priority items and Become notified of high-severity items
Report & Dashboard elements viewable via
 Web browser
 iPads
 Mobile phones
 MS Office, PDF
 Any tool that is JSR168 compliant
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6. Key Benefits
 Automation
 Increased Reliability
 Versatile Integration support
 Cross-product reporting
 Traceability
 Trending & historical data (DW model)
 Real-time data (Live model)
 Web-based tool
 Custom/Interactive dashboards (Business Insight)
 OOTB Collateral
 XML data mappings
 ETL fact builds, dimension builds, jobs
 Framework Manager projects
 Data Warehouse structure
 Reports and Dashboards
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7. Insight Architecture
 Based on Cognos 10 BI platform, industry proven technology
 Leverages web architecture
 Integration Options
 REST service (adapter)
 REST service (native)
 Direct DB access
 ODBC access
 Generic XML
 Very open architecture and wide-range compatibility
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8. The Insight Flow
Data Sources
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Your Dashboard
XDC
ETL
Reporting
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Framework

9. What is Kanban?
 Kanban – means signal card in Japanese
 Kanban System – a pull system that uses card sets to control the work-in-progress (WIP)
in a manufacturing process.
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10. Kanban in Software Development
Taskboards can be used as the basis for visualization of a virtual kanban system.
Backlog
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Design
4
Coding
5
Testing
5
Ready

11. Kanban in Software Development
Taskboards can be used as the basis for visualization of a virtual kanban system.
Backlog
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Design
4
Coding
5
Testing
5
Ready

12. Kanban view in Rational Team Concert
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13. Kanban Method
 Kanban IS NOT:
 An Agile Software Development Method
 A Project Management Method
 A Software Development Process

14. Kanban Method
An approach to incremental, EVOLUTIONARY process change for organizations.

15. Kanban Approach to Change
 Principles of Kanban Method
 Start with what you do NOW
 Agree to pursue evolutionary change
 Initially respect existing roles, responsibilities and job titles

16. Kanban Core Practices
 Visualize Workflow
 Limit Work-in-Progress
 Measure and Manage flow
 Make management policies explicit
 Improve collaboratively (using models and the scientific method)
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17. Kanban Analytics and Metrics
The Cumulative Flow Diagram: Monitoring the Flow
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18. Kanban Analytics and Metrics
Cumulative Flow Diagram Analysis
WIP
Avg Lead Time
Mean Delivery Rate
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19. Kanban Analytics and Metrics
Throughput Trend
Throughput represents the number of items that were delivered in a given time period, such as one month.
WIs
Time
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20. Lead Time in Kanban
Backlog
Design
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Coding
5
Lead Time
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Testing
5
Ready

21. Kanban Analytics and Metrics
Lead Time Average
Average Lead Time
Shows the average of the Lead Time over time.
Time
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22. Kanban – A Case Analysis using metrics with Rational Insight
 A company’s software development area began facing some delays in software delivery.
The team will utilize their Kanban metrics dashboard to identify what is going wrong
 Analyze WIP and Lead Time and Throughput
 Identify a bottleneck of the increasing number of tasks in one of the stages of the process
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24. Our Demonstration Environment
Jazz Team Server
Team Concert
4.0.2
Insight 1.1.1.1
Report Server
(WAS v8)
Cognos Statistics
Plug-in
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DB2 Server
Content Store
Data Warehouse
ETL Catalog

25. Achievements through Kanban
 Improved predictability through lead time distribution and lead time average
trend
 Identified a process improvement opportunity (improve efficiency)
 Identified bottleneck in the process flow (coding phase)
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