The seventh in a roughly weekly series of short excerpts from my book, Kanban from the Inside. A Pattern for Purposeful Change: Lets make the understanding principle more concrete. Start with what you do now, understanding the purpose of the system, how it serves the customer, how it works for those inside the system
Kanban from the Inside: 5. Flow
This post is the fifth in a roughly weekly series of excerpts from my book, Kanban from the Inside. Chapter 5 is on flow. Like the preceding chapter, it is inspired by the third of the Kanban Method’s core practices, Manage flow. … Continue reading →
Kanban from the Inside: Balance
Inside the system, we balance workload against the system’s capacity, both for the sake of the people doing the work and for the improved performance and predictability that comes as a result. But it doesn’t have to stop there.
Interesting things happen when your system’s capability to deliver against each category becomes known. You can help your customers to make better-informed choices.
A Process of Knowledge Discovery
Creative knowledge work is a process of knowledge discovery. You might say that this statement goes a long way to define creative knowledge work and let the rest be left the imagination, but there is still plenty to be said about the process of knowledge discovery.
“How deep” rebooted: values-based depth assessment
It’s fair to say that I have a complicated relationship with the Kanban Depth Assessment tool. With some excitement, I tweeted this picture from the 2102 Kanban Leadership retreat: The new “shallow versus deep”? #klrat pic.twitter.com/dLH3Gfj1 — Mike Burrows (@asplake) June … Continue reading →
Pulling change through the system
I’m busy finishing the very last chapter of Kanban from the Inside. It’s about the last step of the STATIK implementation process, namely rollout. I treat rollout as a long-running, open-ended process that is very amenable to visual management. In fact, it … Continue reading →
STATIK, Kanban’s hidden gem
As far as I can tell from my extensive research (two Google searches), I’m the first person to notice that the “Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban” could go by a nice acronym, STATIK. Not heard of it? You’re probably not … Continue reading →
The Kanban track at #lkna14
It should come as no surprise that the Lean Kanban North America 2014 (#lkna14) conference has a Kanban track. What you might not know is that I’m its chair. I’m taking the opportunity here to say a bit about what we … Continue reading →
My InfoQ series on Kanban’s agendas, Agile India 2014, and some overdue thanks
Over the past few weeks InfoQ has published a series of three articles I’ve written on Kanban’s agendas. Older articles don’t link to newer articles so I list them here in order: The sustainability agenda The service orientation agenda The … Continue reading →
Kanban Values Exercise released
[Cross-posted from edu.leankanban.com] I’ve added an exercise on Kanban’s values to the foundational and advanced practitioner training decks. This has become a fixture even at train-the-trainer events and I ran it twice(!) at the recent Kanban Leadership Retreat in Monterey. From … Continue reading →
