A quick overview of "Kanban from the Inside", the new definitive Kanban book published September 2014

1. Kanban from the Inside
Mike Burrows
Foreword by Luke Hohmann
Blue Hole Press, September 2014
“Clear, concise, beautifully structured summary of the
essentials”
“…by far the most extensive and up-to-date coverage of
Kanban than anything published to date”
“The definitive Kanban textbook”
“Everything you need to keep a Kanban initiative moving”

2. Kanban from the Inside
Part I: Kanban through its Values
 Organizes the principles, practices, and the author’s real-world
experience of the Kanban Method by nine values:
transparency, balance, collaboration, customer focus,
flow, leadership, understanding, agreement, and respect
 Describes the Kanban agendas - sustainability, service
orientation, and survivability - summarizing the organizational
impact achievable through Kanban
 Introduces the Kanban Lens, a 1-slide distillation of the
Kanban practitioner’s approach to creative knowledge work

3. Kanban from the Inside
Part II: Models
 Key bodies of knowledge and their relationships to Kanban:
Systems Thinking, Theory of Constraints, Agile, TPS and Lean
 Economic models: ROI, cost of delay, cost of carry, options
thinking
 The Kanban Method: history; principles, practices, and values;
contextualized Kanban (Personal Kanban, Portfolio Kanban,
Scrumban); enabling concepts and tools
 Smaller models: Little's law; the Satir change model; thinking
tools and coaching models – GROW, A3, Lean Change; group
facilitation - the Kaner model, serious games, innovation
games; models of collaborative leadership

4. Kanban from the Inside
Part III: Implementation
 Modeled on the Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing
Kanban, aka STATIK:
 Understand sources of dissatisfaction
– multiple perspectives, sources of variability
 Analyze demand and capability
– work item types, sources and patterns of demand, performance
 Model workflow
– visualizing and reviewing the knowledge discover process
 Discover classes of service
– matching service offerings to customer expectations
 Design kanban systems
– visualization, controls on work-in-progress, policies
 Roll out
– planning and shaping, pulling change through the system

5. Kanban from the Inside
Also…
 An extensive glossary
 Appendix: Deming's 14 Points for Management
 Get in Touch
– Author, partner & community links
– Teaching / coaching tools
 Index

6. By the same author
Featureban
A fun kanban simulation game
Experience visual management, pull, metrics
Easily customized, released under a Creative Commons
license
Go to bit.ly/featureban-blog
The Kanban Values Exercise
Explore and prioritize the nine values of the Kanban Method
Also released under a Creative Commons license
Go to bit.ly/kanban-values-exercise
Organize your work items
1. Choose 1 feature each, initial it, and put it in the second
2. Put the remainder in the “Ready” column
Ready <State A> ( ) <State B> ( )> Complete !
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• Transparency
• Balance
• Agreement
• Respect
• Understanding
• Collaboration
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• Flow
• Leadership
• Customer focus
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