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Kanban in 30 Days

By : Tomas & Jannika Bjorkholm
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Kanban in 30 Days

By: Tomas & Jannika Bjorkholm

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Kanban in 30 Days
Tomas & Jannika Bjorkholm
Jul, 2015 | 106 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Kanban in 30 Days
Kanban in 30 Days
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
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1
Days 1-2 – Understanding Kanban, Lean, and Agile
Days 1-2 – Understanding Kanban, Lean, and Agile
The four foundational principles of Kanban
The six core practices of Kanban
Lean
Agile
Self-organization
How to choose between Scrum and Kanban
Summary
2
Days 3-5 – Getting to Know Your System
Days 3-5 – Getting to Know Your System
Classes of services – different ways of handling feature requests
Mapping the process
What makes your customer happy?
Summary
3
Days 8-9 – Visualizing Your Process and Creating Your Initial Kanban Board
Days 8-9 – Visualizing Your Process and Creating Your Initial Kanban Board
Information dimensions
Visualization dimensions
Matching information and visualization dimensions
Visualizing different statuses
Examples of Kanban boards
Electronic versus physical boards
Summary
4
Days 10-11 – Setting the Limits
Days 10-11 – Setting the Limits
Adding limits
Showing the result in a graph
Simulating the result
What limit should you start with?
Minimum limits
Theory of constraints
Summary
5
Day 12 – Choosing the Roles and Meetings You Need
Day 12 – Choosing the Roles and Meetings You Need
Introducing new roles
Meetings in Kanban
Summary
6
Day 15 – First Day Running Kanban
Day 15 – First Day Running Kanban
9:00 to 11:00 – first planning meeting
11:00 to 13:00 – creating your Kanban board
13:00 to 14:00 – deciding your meetings
14:00 to 17:00 – start working
A few days later – the first retrospective
Summary
7
Days 16-29 – Improving Your Process
Days 16-29 – Improving Your Process
Edward Deming and PDCA
Measurements to differentiate between improvements from impairments
Summary
8
Day 30 – Release Planning
Day 30 – Release Planning
Basing your plan on facts
Taking control over the amount of work
Knowing your capacity and calculating the delivery date
Follow-up progress with a burn-down chart
Communicating the plan
Burn-up graph
Cumulative flow diagram
Taking control over velocity
Summary

About the Authors

Tomas Björkholm works as a consultant at Crisp in Sweden. Since 2008, he has been helping companies implement and succeed with Kanban and Scrum. He is also a frequently hired speaker and has held more than 150 classes about Agile and Lean for software development. This is Tomas' second book but the first in English.

Jannika Björkholm is the team manager of a developer team, and has been working with Agile methods since 2009.

We wish to thank Anna Sandell, Johan Burén, Peter Kerschbaumer, and Mattias Skarin.

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