Speaker: Marcus Hammarberg

Practitioner's Guide To Kanban

Track: Agile, tuesday - afternoon

Kanban is a software development methodology that implements the pull and flow elements of lean thinking. Learn how to use Kanban as a tool that can enhance other methodologies through visualisation of the workflow to highlight bottlenecks, impediments and other problems, limiting work in process to eliminate waste, and more. This talk introduces Kanban from a practitioners point of view which let you get started with Kanban and lean inspired enhancements right away, regardless of what methodology you use today.

We will show the mechanics of visualisation, flow, and how to monitor the flow in order to identify bottlenecks, impediments etc, using animations of real bords created with more than 150 photographs. This method has shown to be very popular and successful when teaching the practice of Kanban enhancements to agile teams.

There will also be a case study of a Scrum team that adopted Kanban. This will give attendees an opportunity to learn and discuss how to apply Kanban to their own team and process.