3. • is a management method
(not a development process)
• is a top down approach
(not bottom up)
• focuses on global optimalisation
(not on local)
• optimises on lead time
(not throughput)
Kanban
4. 1. Visualize (the work, workflow and business risks)
2. Limit WIP
3. Manage flow
4. Make process explicit
5. Implement feedback loops
6. Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally
(using models & the scientific method)
Management method with 4 principles
and 6 core practices
1. Start with what you do now
2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change
3. Respect the current process, roles, responsibilities
and titles
4. Encourage acts of leadership at all levels in your
organization
5. It is hard to improve the invisible,
so we have to see what we have at
our hands
11. Ready Design Implementation Test Delivery Live
Flow (Stream)
The flow ([value] stream) starts at the left side,
and ends at the right side of the board.
12. The Flow is different in a typical
enterprise and start-up environment