Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology BusinessKanban is becoming a popular way to visualize and limit work-in-progress in software development and information technology work. Teams around the world are adding kanban around their existing processes to catalyze cultural change and deliver better business agility. This book answers the questions: What is Kanban? Why would I want to use Kanban? How do I go about implementing Kanban? How do I recognize improvement opportunities and what should I do about them? Published 10 years ago it is in the top 5 agile books ever published. |
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 | 21 |
From Worst to Best in Five Quarters | 35 |
CHAPTER 5 | 49 |
CHAPTER 11 | 123 |
Metrics and Management reporting _________________________ | 139 |
CHAPTER 14 | 159 |
CHAPTER 16 | 187 |
CHAPTER 17 | 195 |
CHAPTER 18 | 211 |
CHAPTER 19 | 219 |
CHAPTER 20 | 235 |
Mapping the Value Stream ________________________________ | 63 |
CHAPTER 7 | 79 |
establishing an Input Cadence _____________________________ | 103 |
CHAPTER 10 | 113 |
endnotes __________________________________________ | 241 |
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about the author _____________________________________ | 261 |
Common terms and phrases
activities Agile software development allocation analysis asked average lead backlog behavior bottleneck buffer build capacity card wall change requests chapter class items class of service CMMI collaborative continuous improvement coordination costs Corbis defects delivered delivery cadence demand against throughput downstream Dragos electronic tracking estimation example feature Feature Driven Development Figure flow function implemented input queue issues item types iterations kaizen culture Kanban enables Kanban Method kanban system limit WIP limit work-in-progress maintenance maturity Microsoft optimize organization OTA download percent policies predictability prioritization meeting product managers production text changes Prog PTCs pull system Recipe for Success release requirements risk scheduled server slack social capital software engineering software maintenance sources of variability stakeholders swim lanes team members testers Theory of Constraints ticket tion Toyota Production System transaction costs trust typically user stories value stream visual week WIP limits workflow