Spirit of

Kanban

Rev 0.1 2011-07-01 [Voxeo]

What(on earth)is this talk

about?

KANBAN is an approach to managing workflow and organizational improvement that holds great promise for Voxeo, but is not yet widely used or understood by Voxeons.

KANBAN provides a simple method for visualizing, measuring and optimizing the flow of work within an organization. Its principles can be applied in almost any context, from your personal or team to-do list to the organizational product pipeline.

This presentation will outline how to get started with Kanban, describe how Kanban is already being used at Voxeo, and encourage discussion of where else we might like to try using Kanban to make Voxeo a better place to work.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

SYSTEMS and WORKFLOW

Are you ready for a

PARADIGM SHIFT in how you

MANAGE PROJECTS

and

ORGANIZE YOUR TIME

? 

FocusExecuteMeasure

Iterate

Ad Hoc

Punch List

Planned

Agile

Agile Manifesto

Individuals & interactions

Working software

Customer collaboration

Responding to change

Processes and tools

Comprehensive documentation

Contract negotiation

Following a planTHESE preferred

overbut not instead of THESE

SCRUM IS HARD TO DO WELL

Adoption is widespread – Agile and Scrum are now mainstream

May be embraced as a pendulum swing or reaction to traditional PM

Requires a level of continuous discipline that many organizations find difficult to sustain

Sometimes becomes a cover for ad-hoc processes, de-emphasizing discipline, focus, quality, engineering best practice

Can require many, many (many) meetings (particularly at scale)

Kanban

THERE IS NO TIME-BOX

KANBANTHE BASICS

Visualize Work Flow Limit Work In

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KANBANIN REAL LIFE

KANBANAT VOXEO

FocusExecuteMeasure

Iterate

Personal Kanban Project or Team Kanban Organizational Kanban

Stop starting

!Start finishing

TO LEARN MORE• http://www.personalkanban.com• http://agilemanagement.net/• http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/ • http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/ge

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