Kanban Results

Once you've implemented Kanban for your process, there are various areas in which to look for signs of improvement or opportunities for making further changes. Find out what to look for and what to try to avoid, in order to let your process run with little waste and much efficiency.

Improve Your Kanban Results

by David Joyce

How to achieve better results with Kanban? When will you see the first results of implementation? How will Kanban influence your team? What are the best Kanban metrics? In this article, David Joyce describes his team’s progress in shortening delivery and engineering times, lead and cycle time and throughput. The team have a lot to be proud of.

Kanban Evolution

by Karen Greaves

This article presents Karen Greaves’ thoughts on Kanban, the process of Kanban implementation and its evolution. Her impressions and advice have been influenced by a David Anderson’s Kanban workshop, that she attended.
She begins with clearing up the main differences between Scrum and Kanban. The most poignant one is the fact, that Kanban is not based in iterations, like Scrum, therefor it doesn’t demand quite so much effort and alteration to implement. The crucial difference however lies in applying work in progress limits, as a main characteristic of Kanban.

Pain in the Bottleneck

by Gareth Evans

One of the crucial properties of Kanban is spotting bottlenecks and facilitating steps, that lead to resolving them.
Leaving items too long in the pipeline can cause them to lose value (particularly in case of software). Also, according to the Theory of Constraints, the slowest delivery rate in process - the worst bottleneck - is the delivery rate of the entire system. Quite important to make sure the bottlenecks are being sorted out then, isn’t it?

Managing Change Requests Using Lean and Kanban

by Eric Landes

Managing change requests is never the most sought after position in a company. The work is hard and demanding. All the more reason to come up with some great ideas on improving it.
When considering Agile solutions for this line of work, Eric Landes decided to go for Kanban, In the first month after implementation the backlog shrank from 110 features to less than 60 and cycle time decreased to around 5 weeks.

Why do 90% Get Kanban Wrong? How to Get it Right?

by Jesper Boeg

It’s been a long while since Kanban became a new way of managing knowledge-based work, but this doesn’t mean people get it, unfortunately. It still remains widely misunderstood.

Some of the most often misused concepts include a belief, that Kanban is meant to be applied for non-timeboxed workflows only, that no rules means making up own rules and following them, the connection to the original stock management Kanban also creates significant misunderstanding of the overall concept.

Using the Done Column More Effectively

by Renee Troughton

This article entertains a very interesting concept of replacing a burn-down chart with the “done” column. Normally, the “done” column is a collection of all items completed. What Jvonvoss, author of the original post, suggests is turning it into a kind of a graph with all the work done.

When Kanban Fails

by Pawel Brodzinski

If you’re one of the true believers in Kanban and its success rates, here is a piece of news to you - there are times when it will not work. Thinking it is an answer to all problems and a recipe for success in all cases is a nice idea, but quite an unrealistic one.
Find out what are the common reasons for Kanban failure and see how easy it is to avoid them.

The Kanban Lens

by David Anderson

With Kanban being as developed as it is now, and as strongly associated with flow as it is, it was with a renewed interest that we observed David Anderson mentioning the Kanban Core Enabling Concept (nicknamed the Kanban Lens).
This is a simple way of making core Kanban-like changes to an organization without actually breaking the current process.