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Learning Kanban with Games
Handouts
Tampere Goes Agile 2014
Antti Kirjavainen
@anttiki
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Principles of Kanban
1. Start with what you do now.
2. Respect the current process.
3. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change.
Rules of Kanban
1. Visualize workflow.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Limit work in progress (WIP).
Manage the flow of work.
Make process policies explicit.
Improve collaboratively using models and the scientific method.
Implement feedback loops.
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Kanban
reflection: interpretation
Image above by Jurgen Appelo, http://www.noop.nl/
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9 months
6 months
3 months
2 months
1 month
New
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work order
PrePlanning
Backlog
Team ToDo
List
New
maintenance
ticket
Ticket
System
Develop
Ready for
Test
Testing
Ready for
Deploy
Deployment
Analysis
Value Stream Mapping
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Kanban Board
ToDo Development
Testing
Deploy
Done
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Cumulative Flow Diagram
To Do!
Number of items!
Plan!
Development!
Testing!
Ready to
Deploy!
Done!
Time!
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Time in percentages!
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100!
90!
80!
70!
60!
50!
40!
30!
20!
10!
0!
Project
work time!
Time
spent on
context
switching!
1!
2!
3!
4!
Number of Projects!
5!
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Little's Law
average WIP
average Lead Time =
average Throughput
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The Scientific Method
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Ball Flow Game
by Karl Scotland, http://availagility.co.uk/ball-flow-game/
Objective
• Process 20 balls as swiftly as possible.
Rules
• You are one team.
• Balls must have airtime between team members.
• No passing to direct neighbor.
• Start person is the end person.
• Ball is processed when it has been in every team member's possession
and reaches the end person again.
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How long does it take to write a
name?
1 name:
5 names:
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How long does it
take to write a
name?
1 developer
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How long does it take to write a
name?
by Henrik Kniberg, http://www.crisp.se/gratis-material-och-guider/
multitasking-name-game