Tag: kanban
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The value of Kanban
Kanban (capital-K, as in the method) uses a kanban (lowercase-k, as in the board) to visualise and reduce work in progress (WIP for short). This is the most well-known, and visible, part of Kanban. It is achieved by limiting how many pieces of WIP any one work centre can have assigned. At first glance, this may…
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Reviewed: Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Author: David J. Anderson Publisher: Blue Hole Press Year: 2010 ISBN: 9780984521401 Having (re)read the Phoenix Project, I decided to dig a bit deeper into Kanban, and the underlying concepts and methods used in its application. One of the first books that showed up in my searches was David Anderson’s Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your…
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Reviewed: the Phoenix Project
A while back, a friend of mine tipped me off to this book, and said it was a book I should read. Here are my thoughts. Author: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George SpaffordPublisher: IT Revolution PressYear: 2013ISBN: 9780988262591Length: 345 pages An IT Operations department in dire straits, facing the very real possibility of layoffs and outsourcing, starts to turn the ship around, implementing…
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Kanban in an IT Operations setting
A while back, I participated in a discussion about the application of Kanban in an IT Operations setting. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter: I strongly believe there are three keywords to keep in mind when thinking about process design: Practicability – What is the learning curve for using the process? Repeatability – How well is…