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Spot the difference original kanban and lean kanban

Spot the difference – The original Kanban, The Lean Kanban method, Professional Scrum with Kanban

Professional scrum with Kanban came out in February 2018, and it can be found at https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams. The Lean Kanban method is described in the Essential Kanban Condensed Guide, that’s at https://leankanban.com/. The original Toyota Kanban has been around for a little longer (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQxvkXSiuA), not to be confused with Kaizen as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wot9DFzFRLU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rRHqb5MV0. This video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5izyN66PTxs in two minutes the original […]
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Mirror mirror on the wall…

John Coleman does an opinion piece on thus use of scaling patterns or none – views are his own Consider this blog post as background for future posts. It has a lot of detail, and you might need to carve out some time, grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable before reading this. I […]
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Kanbaning your scrum part 3 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (3 of 3)

You might remember my posts on “Professional Scrum with Kanban – Don’t just limit WIP – optimise it! (posts 1 of 3 and 2 of 3)”. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team members flipped coins. Heads or Tails, heads was a good day, tails not so good, and […]
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Kanbaning your Scrum part 2 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (part 2 of 3)

You might remember https://www.valueglide.com/blog/kanbaning-your-scrum. We optimized the amount of work in progress for simple/obvious work. Now let’s make it a bit more complicated. You might remember I ran a simulation with teams around the world over a number of years. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team […]
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Don’t have a blocked column

Write your answer to this question before reading further,  How do you show that a work item (story, customer request) is blocked? Have a look around your organisation and the electronic tools. If you use them, how many visualisations do you see with a Blocked column? The chances are the majority have a Blocked column. Read […]
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Kanbaning your Scrum

Kanbaning your Scrum

What does the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams (at https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams) say about work in progress limits? “Kanban (n): a strategy for optimizing the flow of stakeholder value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system. ….. Optimizing flow requires defining what flow means in a Scrum context. Each Scrum Team must create its […]
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Why leaders need to learn the Kanban Method?

The Kanban Method or Kanban for short, provides a lens through which leaders can ensure that the organisation is working on the most important work and know what to improve that leads to improved value flow across the value stream. This is why leaders need to learn the kanban method, Kanban Method enables you to answer the following […]
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Do you know your system capability?

“Medicine had been ‘successfully’ practised without the knowledge of germs. In a pre-germ theory paradigm, some patients got better, some got worse and some stayed the same; in each case, some rationale could be used to explain the outcome …” (1) (2) Doctors practised what was taught Doctors explained what they observed through practice using […]
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Five steps to improve your system of work

Follow these five steps to improve your system of work    1) Understand the end-to-end system of the value flow to the customer Study how the flow of work and visualise your work and map the flow Run the map, watch work items flow through the map Limit the number of tokens 2) Understand the system capabilities Types of […]
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