Fundamentals of Lean Software Delivery: (09) Kanban

Kanban is a way to continuously evaluate existing processes and evolve them over time to promote lean development. This session focuses on how to move Kanban principles and techniques into actions that you can take immediately, tomorrow, and in the future, with concrete examples of how to implement them in your own organization.

• [04:32] - What Kanban is (and isn’t)
• [07:54] - Visualize the Flow of Value
• [13:52] - Make Policies Explicit
• [20:27] - Limit WIP
• [27:09] - Manage Flow
• [31:23] - Commit to Continued Improvement
• [38:47] - Culture Flag
• [39:16] - Onward: Next steps & conclusions

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction to Lean Product Development
• Mod 02: Economics over Emotion
• Mod 03: Value Flow over Resource Utilization
• Mod 04: System over Individual Optimization
• Mod 05: Decentralized Decision Making over Command and Control
• Mod 06: Feedback Loops
• Mod 07: Managing Queues
• Mod 08: Batch Sizes
• Mod 09: Kanban