The document discusses Kanban and its values. It defines Kanban as a humane approach to change that helps develop organizational learning capability. Kanban works by driving change through practices aligned with transparency, balance and collaboration values. It provides direction through customer focus, flow and leadership, benefiting inside and outside stakeholders. Kanban helps create an environment where learning can flourish through leadership disciplines of understanding, agreement and respect. The effect is improved predictability, performance, worker satisfaction and adaptability through continuous customer-focused process innovation.
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Kanban through its values
Mike Burrows
@asplake
mike@djaa.com
positiveincline.com
meldstrong.com
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What is Kanban?
Something from the factory floor?
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What is Kanban?
A personal productivity tool?
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What is Kanban?
The new name for a card wall
or standup meeting?
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What is Kanban?
The Kanban method [1] is an
evolutionary approach to change
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What is Kanban?
Kanban is a humane approach to
change, an effective way to develop the
learning capability of knowledge-based
organisations
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Kanban is like onions!
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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Drive
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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CP1: Visualize
CP4: Make policies explicit
CP5: Implement feedback loops
Drive 1: transparency
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Watch for people messing with the
rules, because that is the earliest
sign of significant change
Joel Barker
Transparency: explicit policies
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“When taking on a new piece of
work, inform the sponsors of any
existing work that will be
impacted as a result”
Transparency: explicit policies
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“Production > Test > Dev”
Transparency: explicit policies
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On hold
Proposed
Prioritised
Ready for Dev
Dev
Testing
Ready for
Release
Released
Implemented
Transparency: feedback loops
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CP2: Limit work-in-progress (WIP)
Drive 2: balance
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CP6: Improve
collaboratively, evolve
experimentally
[using models [and the scientific method]]
Drive 3: collaboration
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Collaboration: creative & effective relationships
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Collaboration: creative & effective relationships
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Increasingly, the needs of business
require a level of collaboration
impossible at the “I’m great” level
David Logan [10]
Collaboration: not just the means, a focus
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Collaboration: look beyond the method
CP6: Improve
collaboratively, evolve
experimentally
[using models [and the scientific method]]
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Collaboration: open to inspiration
Models External Internal
How things
work ✔ ✔
How to
change
them
✔ ✔
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Collaboration: evolve experimentally
Plan
Do
Check
Act
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Drive
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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Direction
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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CP3 (expanded): Manage to
timely completion the smooth
flow of customer-recognised
value over a range of timescales
Outlook 1: customer focus
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“Know what you’re delivering,
to whom, and why”
Outlook 1: customer focus
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Customer focus: beyond “on time & as asked”
...anticipating the mobility
needs of people and society
ahead of time
from The Toyota Promise
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CP3 (expanded): Manage to
timely completion the smooth
flow of customer-recognised
value over a range of timescales
Direction 2: flow
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…learn to see it and to value it
Flow: pay explicit attention [7] to flow
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Balance & Flow: Little’s law
lead time =
work-in-progress (WIP)
delivery rate
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Balance & Flow: Little’s law
Limit WIP until the flow does it for you
(but maintain WIP controls even then)
lead time =
work-in-progress (WIP)
delivery rate
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FP4: Encourage acts of
leadership at all levels in your
organization – from individual
contributor to senior
management
Direction 3: leadership
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1. What is the process?
2. How can we see that it is working?
3. How is it improving?
Leadership: a leadership routine (or kata)
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Leadership: small acts of leadership [13]
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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Put problems & problem-solvers
as close together in time &
space as you can; managers
provide coaching and scope
after Steven J. Spear [8]
Leadership: develop & sustain the system
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Direction
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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Discipline
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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FP1: Start with what you do now
Discipline 1: understanding
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FP1 (expanded): Start with what
you do now, understanding [4]:
• how it serves and frustrates the customer
• how the process works and fails to work for you
• how it can be changed
Discipline 1: understanding
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“tampering” – Deming [5]
“bravado” – Collins [6]
understanding: its absence is a safety issue
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Here
There
understanding: the sales pitch for change
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understanding: likely reality, two questions
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understanding: likely reality, two questions
1. Are we compromising on safety?
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understanding: likely reality, two questions
2. Do we have the patience?
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FP2: Agree to pursue
incremental, evolutionary
change
Discipline 2: agreement
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Increasing “fitness”,
growing understanding
Increasing capability
for change
agreement: ambition & safety reconciled
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agreement in practice,
vs
agreement in principle
agreement: a leadership discipline
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agreement between
vs
agreement from
agreement: a leadership discipline
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FP3: Initially, respect current
roles, responsibilities & job titles
Discipline 3: respect
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respect: the ultimate test of a humane method
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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respect: Yes we Kanban! [14]
…the dream of an empowered, self-
organizing, trusting, respectful
workplace…
…the dream of organizations that
deliver high quality and delight
customers with designs that empower
rather than frustrate…
…the dream of a workplace where
cycle times are so short that ideas are
turned into valuable functionality
when they are needed…
Yes we Kanban!
David J Anderson [14]
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Discipline
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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What is Kanban?
Kanban is a humane approach to
change, an effective way to develop the
learning capability of knowledge-based
organisations
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How does Kanban work?
It:
1. Drives change through practices aligned to the
values of transparency, balance and collaboration
2. Provides direction in the form of customer
focus, flow and leadership, benefiting stakeholders
inside and outside the system
3. Helps create the environment in which learning can
flourish, through the leadership disciplines of
understanding, agreement and respect
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To what effect?
• Improving predictability & performance
• Improving worker safety & satisfaction
• Increasing adaptability & resilience
• Continuous customer-focused process
innovation
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Reflection
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
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[1] Kanban, Anderson http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-Successful-Evolutionary-Technology-
Business/dp/0984521402/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387272&sr=1-1
[2] http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/01/introducing-kanban-through-its-values/
[3] http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/01/kanban-values-understanding-and-purpose/
[4] Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Meadows http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-
Meadows/dp/1603580557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387371&sr=1-1
[5] Out of the Crisis, Deming http://www.amazon.com/Out-Crisis-W-Edwards-
Deming/dp/0262541157/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387455&sr=1-1
[6] Good to Great, Collins http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-
Others/dp/0066620996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387591&sr=1-1
[7] The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager, Mezick http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Game-
Tools-Agile-Manager/dp/0984875301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387632&sr=1-1
[8] Steven J. Spear, The High Velocity Edge
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
[10] Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, Logan
http://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-
Organization/dp/0061251321/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387685&sr=1-1
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization
[12] The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Senge
http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-
Organization/dp/0385517254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387790&sr=1-1
[13] Small acts of leadership positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/06/small-acts-of-leadership/
[14] Yes we Kanban http://www.agilemanagement.net.php5-19.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/resources
References
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Special thanks to:
Jabe Bloom, Patrick Steyaert, Matthias Jouan, David J Anderson, Dave White,
Arne Roock, Bernd Schiffer, Dimitar Bakardzhiev, Greg Brougham,
Hermanni Hyytiälä, Janice Linden-Reed, Chris Chan, Zsolt Fabok, Corinna
Baldauf, Andy Carmichael, Alex Fedtke, Tom Cagley, Rob Ferguson, Yuval Yeret,
Joseph Hurtado, John Miller, Kurt Häusler, Matthias Bohlen, Rodolfo Moeller,
Karl Scotland, Mattias Skarin, Alan Shalloway, Pierre Nies, Fred Engel,
David Shrimpton, Björn Tikkanen, Simon Thomas, Simon Marcus, Marco Melas,
Jon Terry, Maria Alfredéen, Torbjörn Gyllebring, Shridhar Lolla, Jim Sutton,
Stephen Parry, Klaus Leopold, Sigi Kalteneger, Gaetano Mazzanti
Thank you
Photos:
Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bisgovuk/8163832175/sizes/o/in/set-72157631951890089/
Slides 5, 14: David J. Anderson & Associates Inc
Slide 31: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lennon-McCartney.JPG
Slide 32: http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org/?attachment_id=364
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Mike Burrows
@asplake
mike@djaa.com
positiveincline.com
meldstrong.com
Contact
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Epilogue
The Learning Organisation:
…a group of people working together collectively
to enhance their capacities to create results
they really care about
Senge [11, 12]
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Homework
Choose three values for your meldstrong.com profile
Drive
Direction
Discipline
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
understanding
agreement
respect
Notas del editor
A core that’s about driving or catalysing change through practices aligned to the values of transparency, balance and collaborationA middle layer that’s about giving direction and outlook to that change in the form of customer focus, flow and leadershipA protective outer layer of leadership disciplines and working agreements that help create the environment in which learning can flourish. These are represented by the values of understanding, agreement and respect----- Meeting Notes (05/07/2013 20:19) -----Let’s start with that first set, the values of transparency, agreement & respect.We’ll see how the practices that exemplify these values drive change.
Let’s start with that first set, the values of transparency, agreement & respect.We’ll see how the practices that exemplify these values drive change.
If you haven’t guessed it already, we’re making our work visible in a particular kind of visual management tool, a kanban board“kanban” is the only Japanese word I’ll use, I promise! We really do make a point of using plain, everyday language.“kanban” literally means “visual sign” or “token”. These tokens – often sticky notes – represent work items, deliverable pieces of work that our customers would recognise,It’s quite a rich visualisationIt shows the work items’ different types (the colours). Different types typically reflect different kinds of customer expectations. Colour-coding these expectations helps us to risk-manage them appropriately.The columns represent the different states the work items currently occupy. They’re sequenced left-to-right to show the high-level workflowFrom across the room we can see at a glance how much we have, where it is, what work is blocked.Look a little closer and we can see who is working on what, when any date-driven work items are due to be delivered, and so on.All this visibility for work which is normally invisible - until we deliver it to the customer it exists only in our heads and on our computers!Fully-fledged kanbansystems have another feature which we’ll come to shortly.
Before we do that, let’s see how important these visual elements are for driving change.As a team, we share something visible around which we can self-organise.Self organisation is a beautiful thing!not just people acting with autonomyself-organisation refers to the ability of systems to reconfigure themselves without the need for outside directionself-organisation brings adaptability and resilience. These are good qualities to have.Reconfiguring the system may involve modifying the work management system. A lWith kanban, this is an easy and cheap thing to do. If we find that the current board design doesn’t reflect our best understanding of how things should work, we change it!
This is a high leverage activityRub a line out, draw another one in, move a few stickies. Alternatively, a few clicks of the mouse if we’re using an electronic tool.For next to no cost, we can effect change on the system, yielding perhaps significant change in how it behaves.That change remains in place as long as we need it – we’ve captured learning.
Team policySends a message that we’re serious about finishingAlso that we’re not keen on sucking risk into the system in an untransparent way – let’s have risks & priorities managed on the business side where that’s appropriate
Big project - $1m of WIP on the board
The board is a point-in-timevisualisation. When we take a time-based view, we can verify that our changes are having the effect we desire.In this picture – a CFD – we see the ballooning of work followed by step changes, the big batch transfers, then something else - flow
task focus, role focus, team focus, project focus, product focus, company focus, technology focus - the list goes onSo many ways to lose sight of what we're in business for!
Controversial? Perhaps with some, but not with meIn my mind, Leadership and change are very hard to separate.Change without leadership seems undeliberate, accidental evenAnd leadership without change is what, exactly?
There’s nothing accidental about this scenario – it’s very deliberate, the result of years of patient work.Let’s see how it works
ReflectionHow do you keep focus on needs of your customers, to the flow of work across your organisation, and on the challenge developing leadership?In your organisation, we those things the subject of occasional flurries of activity or in the air all the time? If the latter, how do you achieve that?
Agree to keep moving forward insafe-to-fail increments based on understanding and captured learning
Reflect:Do you have (or demonstrate yourself) leadership that is disciplined, or leadership that acts on whim?Where would you start if you wanted to change that?
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!
You can read the references and the thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve put this deck up on slideshare!Meanwhile I leave you with 4 things:One, my contact detailsTwo, Advance notice of Lean Kanban UK, to be held in London October 31st and November 1stThree, this thought from Peter Senge on the Learning Organisation. Wouldn’t you like some of that?Four, some homework!