KANBAN

Kanban will be highly effective if applied at the following times:

• ^{In the software development process and improve teamwork efficiency.}

• ^{At the time you want to change priorities quickly.}

• ^{When you want to visualize work and see the progress of your tasks.}

• ^{All are correct}

Draw a Kanban board

Answer explanation

Fundamental to the method is the ability to make incremental changes starting with what you are doing now. Making smaller incremental changes protects the overall system from risk and ensures improvements are actually being made by analyzing the results in isolation with each change. It also gives the possibility to easily rollback to where an organization was without any additional cost or disruption that is inherent in other change methods.

The Kanban method uses Kanban boards to visualize invisible work, workflow, & business risks

• Fact

• Myth

Answer explanation

As a general rule, seek to make that which is invisible, visible. Once invisible work, workflows, and business risks can be seen, it is possible to manage them better. Understand how to define and capture requests for work. Visualize each request with a card on a Kanban board. Visualize the sequence of knowledge discovery activities performed from when the request is first received until it is completed and ready for delivery to the customer. We call this sequence of knowledge discovery activities, the workflow.

What is a WIP limit?

• _{Working In Pairs (WIP) is a reference to the limit of duration of pair programming in Kanban}

• _{A limit of the Work In Progress (WIP) through each stage of creation, development, or manufacture of goods or services}

• _{Increase the Words In Programming (WIP) limit to better improve note taking inside of the code in an application}

• _{There is no such thing as a WIP limit in Kanban?}

You must use a physical kanban board in Agile Kanban.

• _{No, you may elect to use a virtual board or really any method of visualizing the work that works best for you and your team}

• _{Yes, you may only use a physical board}

• _{No, you may only elect to use a physical board or a virtual board}

The 3 basic rules of Kanban are:

• _{Visualizing Workflow, Iterative and Incremental Development, Utilizing a Push System}

• _{Visualize Workflow, Limit Work In Progress, Measure and Improve Flow}

• _{Limit Work In Progress, Iterative and Incremental Development, Utilize Pull Systems}

• _{Iterative and incremental Development, Utilizing a Pull System, Measure and Improve Flow}

Over time, the application of Kanban helps you build an adaptive capability that enables you to respond effectively to changes in customer demand or your business environment.

• Myth

• Fact

Answer explanation

Demand - the request to do work - can be managed!

We call this “shaping demand.”

There are several methods to improve how work requests are handled. There are also ways of reducing delay and other factors that eat into productivity.

The Kanban Method specifically addresses the challenges of professional services work including the high variation environment of technology businesses.