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Kanban is an Agile methodology that focuses on the visualization of your workflow (a board of memos)

Workers using Kanban receive their tasks and materials exactly when they need it, no sooner

Kanban was invented by Toyota as a means of improving work efficiency

The word comes from Japanese and means a signal-card

What is Kanban?

Will Agile work for my company?Will Kanban work in my

company?

What is more important for you: individuals and interactions or processes and tools?

Do you spend more time making your product usableor making documentation how to use it?

Would you rather collaborate with your clientsor negotiate hard?

Are you able to respond to changes on-the-flyor do you stick to the plan no matter what?

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If you chose at least one answer in bold then Kanban is definitely worth giving a shot

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Selected methods of Agile

How does Kanban work?

Work is divided into tasks, prioritised and put into backlog

A task with the highest priority is pulled from the backlog.

When the work on task is finished, it’s marked as ‘done’ and can be pulled by the next person in line

The idea of Kanban is not to push tasks down the line,but let people pick them when available

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Example Kanban board

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How to make your team commissioned

What are direct benefits of using Kanban?

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Work is visualised which reduces confusionReduced idle time (waiting) and over-processing Increased productivity and customer satisfactionFlexibilitySimplified production planning

Common mistakes of new Kanban teams

No backlog groomingNo workflow visualizationExceeded limit of Work in ProgressWorkflow not fitting company process (eg. too many steps)Moving items back in line due to badly constructed

workflowCreating additional policies that override basic principles of

Kanban

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Yes, let’s do this!

Ready to try Kanban in practice?