Designing and Operating a Kanban System

Revoluciona tu flujo de trabajo: el impacto de las políticas en un sistema Kanban

Definition of Workflow (DoW), Active Management of WIP, Adjusting DoW and Pull Policies, Spanish, Understanding Kanban, Designing and Operating a Kanban System / By / March 15, 2023

Un sistema Kanban tiene como objetivo optimizar el valor optimizando el flujo al encontrar el equilibrio adecuado entre eficacia, eficiencia y previsibilidad en la forma en que se realiza el trabajo. Las políticas juegan un papel fundamental en el éxito de un sistema Kanban. Los miembros del equipo pueden comprender sus roles y responsabilidades con …

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Revolutionizing Your Workflow: The Impact of Kanban Policies

Understanding Kanban, Designing and Operating a Kanban System, Definition of Workflow (DoW), Visualization, Active Management of WIP, Adjusting DoW and Pull Policies / By / March 15, 2023

A Kanban system aims to optimize value by optimizing flow by finding the right balance of effectiveness, efficiency, and predictability in how work gets done.  Policies play a critical role in the success of a Kanban system. Policies in a Kanban system define rules, guidelines, team member roles and responsibilities, and procedures for handling work …

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Who defines the workflow, you or your team?

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We regularly talk about optimizing the workflow but we don’t talk as often about who should be doing that optimization. Should it be the manager, or some dedicated process specialist, or should we be leaving it up to the team to figure out their own workflow? Spoiler: We should let the team figure it out. …

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How to Limit Your WIP in Kanban

Leave a Comment / Visualization, Active Management of WIP, Predictability and Continuous Improvement, Alternate Language, Understanding Kanban, Portuguese, Kanban and Flow Definition, Designing and Operating a Kanban System, Definition of Workflow (DoW) / By / July 1, 2022

One of the most asked questions during Kanban training is: how to limit WIP? But before we talk about it, what is WIP anyway? WIP is the acronym for: work in progress. Which is a flow metric that shows how many items that have started but not finished. When we talk about limiting WIP, we …

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Ideas para pensar sobre la implementación de Kanban

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4 ideas claves a tener presente al implementar Kanban El cambio que buscamos implementar a través de Kanban como estrategia no se puede vender de manera creíble como algo que solo es beneficioso. Todo cambio trae incertidumbre y con suerte riesgos. Para acompañar a equipos y organizaciones, debemos mostrarles cómo los beneficios del cambio superan …

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Kanban + Lean UX = The Future of Agility

4 Comments / Visualization, Developing People and Teams, Strategic Business Agility, Uncategorized, Understanding Kanban, Systems Thinking / By / April 7, 2022

Box 1 frames the business problem to be solved; one could use the business problem template, the elevator pitch template, or free format. Box 2 is specific about the percentage or numeric improvement achieved if the problem was solved; the pirate metrics AARRR (#acquisitions, #activations, $revenue, %retention, #referrals) metrics are often used. Box 2 metrics …

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Kanban Adoption in Nigeria; A Frontier Worth Exploring

2 Comments / Uncategorized, Understanding Kanban, Kanban and Flow Definition, Systems Thinking, Visualization, Predictability and Continuous Improvement, Developing People and Teams, Respect for people, Facilitation, Teaching, Coaching & Mentoring, Strategic Business Agility / By / March 31, 2022

Nigeria, like other nations, is an evolving work environment. A nation of over 200 million people (UNDP, 2021). Interesting in her demographic is her workforce. From United Nations Population Fund statistics, over 50% of her population in the workforce is young and vibrant. The question then is, how can the Agile framework; Kanban, facilitate the delivery of value for Nigerian organizations and businesses? To answer this …

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Designing Your Board to Focus on flow

Visualization, Designing and Operating a Kanban System, Definition of Workflow (DoW) / By / February 8, 2022

We all want to design our Kanban boards to enable consistent, smooth flow of work all the way from start to finish. Unfortunately, that capability doesn’t come naturally and the way we often visualize our work processes can unknowingly cause dysfunction. In this post, we share some important things to consider (at least from our …

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Slack is not a dirty word: How ‘slack’ can improve your products

Leave a Comment / Active Management of WIP, Flow Theory / Pull Systems / By / February 13, 2022

In a Kanban system you introduce WIP limits at each step of the value flow. This means, that if you get stuck at any one step in the flow and things are not moving forward, then all those who operate in earlier stages of the system enter a holding pattern. If you’re explaining Kanban to …

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