Dominica DeGrandis presentation at LeanUX 2015 on Kanban for DevOps & the Value of Lean Flow.

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Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Kanban for DevOps & the Value of Lean Flow

2. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Saturday
Mornings
-­‐
before

3. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Saturday
Mornings
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a3er

4. Parkinson’s
Law
“Work
expands
to
fill
the
2me
available
for
its
comple2on.”
Cyril
Parkinson

5. Dominica’s
Hypothesis
“Demand
increases
in
propor2on
to
the
ability
to
meet
the
demand.”

6. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Poll results from 500+ people across 55 countries:
“How does context switching impact your team?”

7. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Poll results from 500+ people across 55 countries:
“What is main cause of conflicting priorities for
your team?”

9. Puppet
Labs
2014
Devops
Report
“While
we
suspected
job
sa2sfac2on
impacted
organiza2onal
performance,
we
were
surprised
to
see
that
job
sa2sfac2on
was
the
#1
predictor
of
organiza2onal
performance.”
hIps://puppetlabs.com/sites/default/files/2014-­‐state-­‐of-­‐devops-­‐report.pdf

10. “Organiza2onal
health
will
one
day
surpass
all
other
disciplines
in
business
as
the
greatest
opportunity
for
improvement.”
Patrick
Lencioni

11. “Organiza2onal
health
will
one
day
surpass
all
other
disciplines
in
business
as
the
greatest
opportunity
for
improvement.”
Patrick
Lencioni

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Portfolio Program
donedesign ready to
deliver
feedback
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[idle for n days]
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item now delayed
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Project 5
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committed
Project 4
C
B
B A
Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad

13. A"ribu'on
to
Bernade"e
Dairo
–
Canadian
Govt
agency
in
Toronto

14. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad

15. Operations team work flow
ValidateDeliver ClosedDesign
Fires
Maintenance
Projects
Implement
3
9
2
Improve
CODB
Fire
Project
Improvement
Investigate
Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Unplanned
Unplanned

16. Removing project work allows team to
focus on maintenance and improvements
ValidateDeliver ClosedDesign
Fires
Maintenance
Projects
Items in
backlog
remain
uncommitted
and un-
prioritized
until there is
capacity to
absorb them.
Implement
Backlog
3
9
2
Improvement
CODB
Fire
Project
Improvement
Investigate
Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad

17. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Product development team board

18. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Product development team board
.
Consider impacts to others.
When people cooperate, they need less
meetings, less rules, less resources.

19. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Ops team board

20. Enterprise Portfolio Board
Active
Projects
B
C
D
M
A
H
K
Work-item
types
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OperationsFinance SB Infrastructure
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64
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nextbacklog
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D
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Too big! G
32

21. PorNolio
Program
OperaPons
team
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B
donedesign readyto
deliver
feedback
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Inwork
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[idleforndays]
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PZ
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build deliver
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Project1
Project2
Project3
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PB
BMN
CD
WZ
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Project5
C
MN
committed
Project4
C
B
B A
Product
Dev
team

22. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Risks & Issues board – a 3rd type of Kanban

23. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Risks & Issues board – Looking at cost of delay

24. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Risks & Issues board – prioritize by cost of delay

25. Improve collaboratively using models

26. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Cost of Delay
Kiwi Dial

27. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
To
Do
Doing
Done
A short prioritized list of things to do is a
beautiful thing.

28. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
To
Do
Doing
Done
How will your organization prioritize a short list
of things to do? What is the one metric that
matters most?
Value of Lean Flow approach:
clear priorities
fewer interruptions

29. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad
Kanban
for
DevOps
&
the
Value
of
Lean
Flow