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step 1Visualise your work .
www.flickr.com/photos/3oheme/5141328136

Get a whiteboard, break down
the flow of work from the moment you start it to when its finishedinto distinctive steps and draw a column for each

Next, get some stickiesin as
many colors as you can www.flickr.com/photos/rameshng/5723481678

Write down each task on
a separate sticky note www.flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca/3007652539

Use different colors fordifferent types
of work

And put them on the
whiteboard. Each task will movefrom left to right until its done and leaves the workflow.

Creating good workflow takes time
and practice,but there are few basic examples you can begin with.

Simple layout like this one
is a good starting point,especially for Personal Kanban and small teams.

A more complex example of
time driven workflow for Personal Kanban and small teams.

Workflow for software development company

Kanban Sales Pipeline

step 2Limit work in progress
. With two hands you can juggle only few balls before you start dropping them www.flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca/2584411389

At 100% capacity you have
minimal throughput http://www.flickr.com/photos/lingaraj/2415084235

And Kanban is all about
maintaining flow and eliminating waste. waste. www.flickr.com/photos/cefeida/4109239083

Start by putting limits on
columnsin which work is being performed

WIP Limits aim to enforce
a high, smooth flow of work and eliminate different kinds of waste

On the personal level this
gets much simpler

After you introduce the WIP
limits you can try to propagate them back through the workflow, observe results and adapt. Getting limits right takes time, so start with your best guess and fine-tune over time. The ultimate goal is to achieveconstant, high throughput and personal / team performance.

step 3Dont push too hard
Pull instead photo adapted from www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3212039475

Its easy to get friction
between different teams, especially when one is more performant...

… and pushes more work
thananother one can actually handle.

A solution to this is
a pull system, system,where next team pulls work only when ready for it.

You can implement pull system
by adding a limited capacity buffer between teams.

step 4 Use it! -
then -Monitor, adapt and improve .

The best tool to measure
Kanban performance is Cumulative Flow Chart

Each day, for each column,
mark how many tasks are in it or somewhere further down the workflow. This will produce a mountain-like looking chart, which gives insight intothe process, shows past performance and allows to predict future results

One of the many things
you can read from it is the mean time for task to get through the workflow www.slideshare.net/yyeret/explaining-cumulative-flow-diagrams-cfd Note that without limit on Work In Progress,the Mean Cycle Time tends to increase drastically ...

… eventually leading to the
dreaded waterfall model www.slideshare.net/yyeret/explaining-cumulative-flow-diagrams-cfd

power tip 1 Use online
tool tomanage your activities .

● online tool to manage
your activities using Kanban method● perfect for distributed teams● real time collaboration● accessible from everywhere● provides in-depth analytics, including Cumulative Flow● retains data about your past performance http://kanbantool.com

power tip 2 Mix Kanban
withsomething you like . www.flickr.com/photos/theogeo/2477475620

ScrumBanhttp://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoonabar/4377007642

PomodoroBan www.flickr.com/photos/callion/5525638094

power tip 3But most of
all ...

enjoy Kanban! www.flickr.com/photos/bearpark/2741212476

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