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Kanban in 30 Days

You're reading from   Kanban in 30 Days Modern and efficient organization that delivers results

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783000906
Length 106 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tomas & Jannika Bjorkholm Tomas & Jannika Bjorkholm
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Kanban in 30 Days
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Days 1-2 – Understanding Kanban, Lean, and Agile FREE CHAPTER 2. Days 3-5 – Getting to Know Your System 3. Days 8-9 – Visualizing Your Process and Creating Your Initial Kanban Board 4. Days 10-11 – Setting the Limits 5. Day 12 – Choosing the Roles and Meetings You Need 6. Day 15 – First Day Running Kanban 7. Days 16-29 – Improving Your Process 8. Day 30 – Release Planning

Examples of Kanban boards


A Kanban board can, and should, look different in order to visualize the work for the specificities of the situation you find yourself in. Be prepared to change the look of the board frequently in the beginning to find a style that suits you and is capable of adapting to your needs whenever the circumstances change. A good Kanban board helps you to know what work needs to be done and in what order. It also helps you see the weaknesses in your system. If the board can help you find where you have bottlenecks, you can focus your efforts on these areas and improve them.

To give you some inspiration as to what an effective Kanban board might look like, we will now give you some examples of boards that we have come across.

Kanban board example – internal operation

This example comes from an operation department hosting their own application. An ordinary day for them was a mix of daily duties, firefighting, and small projects to proactively reduce the numbers of fires....

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