Kanban ImplementationOrientation Session

ByAltaf Al-Amin Najvani

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Peek-a-Boo Methodology!!

Visibility to the actual status and progress of the work is “Random”.

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The Pizza Game• Prepare PizzaTo produce as many pizzas as You can while trying to avoid waste i.e. raw materials prepared but not used.

• Ingredients:• Pizza Base• Tomato Sauce• Chicken• Pineapple• Cheese

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The Pizza Game• Instructions:• A slice of pizza base (paper triangle)• Tomato sauce (red marker)• Three slices of Chicken (Green Post-Its) • Three slices of Pineapple (Yellow Post-Its). • Cheese Sprinkles (Off-White Post-Its)• The tomato sauce covers the pizza bottom nicely and the

toppings are carefully cut and distributed evenly across the pizza. Yum!• There can be a maximum of three pizza slices in the oven

at one time. Cooking time is at least 30 seconds. • No adding or removing of slices while baking!

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Point System to Measure & OptimizeWork Points EarnedPizza Base (With or Without Sauce)

- 4 Points

Chicken Topping -1 PointPineapple Topping -1 PointCheese Sprinkles -1 PointFinished Slice +10 Points

Each Piece Counts Negative Until the Slice is 100% Done

Round 1• Ad Hoc Work Environment – No Defined Workflow• Less Visibility of Work In Progress and Deliverables• Piling up of Unfinished Work• Generous Use of Resources / Inefficient Use of

Resources• High Lead Time• Problems are NOT found and tackled immediately.• Communication and feedback is NOT “rapid and

plenty”.

“A Watched Pot Never Boils”

Retrospective – 6 Practices• Visualize The WorkFlow • Do You have WorkFlow? Make Station for Each Step

• Limit Work In Progress (WiP)• Where is the unfinished work pilingup?

• Manage The Flow• Look at the Lead Time – Calculate your points in every

round.• Implement Feedback Loops• Did you regulary reviewed your work & progress?

• Make Process Policies Explicit• Make it Easy and Defined – Assumption is the mother of

all ….. Problems• Improve Collaboratively • Lets Play Again !!

Lets Play Again – Round 2

From the game to a Real Kanban Board

Kanban Board

Toyota Introduced Kanban in 1940

Team Kanban Board

Mura (斑 ) is a Japanese word meaning "unevenness; irregularity; lack of uniformity; non-uniformity; inequality"

• Unnecessary variations in product backlog. It generates stress and makes us less self-confident during estimations.

• Implement multiple, slightly different implementations for a same problem. We don’t need such variations. We should use “a same monkey” – a component

• Unevenness in Work Approach• Lack of Collaboration • Non-uniformity in Code – Code Reviews

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