ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY -KANBAN

CMIS-570 Jacob Adams

History

“Visual Card”

Toyota Production System / Lean Manufacturing

Reduce waste and inventory

“Pull” system – like supermarket

Lean Software

Reduce software inventory (Work in progress)

Utilize pull system and only produce what is needed

Make software development process more efficient

Kanban Software Systems

Uses Kanban cards – similar to Agile story cards.

Use Kanban board to track task and project progress.

Kanban Board

Kanban Board

Comparison to SDLC

Work still continues through defined stages

Break down large amounts of work in smaller groups. (Minimum marketable features)

Continous Delivery

Teamwork/cross training

Comparison to Agile

Work is not time boxed

No Estimations

Work Queue Limits

Process improvement is shared between team

Resources

http://www.limitedwipsociety.org

http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban

http://www.agilemanagement.net/resources/BetterSoftwareKanbanPrimer.pdf

http://www.kanbandistilled.com/