Excerpt from "Kanban Combat"

Inscription

In the 21st century, the most important job of enterprise managers is to increase the productivity of internal knowledge workers, so that knowledge workers can manage themselves, learn independently, and innovate continuously. People no longer use the quantity of output to measure productivity, and quality (value) becomes particularly important.

Pain points

• Unnecessary deadlines and overly optimistic estimation of the characteristic range make the focus of the work become squeezing the work before the deadline instead of completing the work with high quality.
• Switching and integration between the dismantled work has a profoundly negative impact on the completion rate, avoiding defects and team morale.
• The blocked work is often overwhelmed in a large number of workflows, and it is not exposed until the delivery date falls, but it is too late.
• Everyone is busy, but they don't know each other's work, and communication is not smooth.

Kanban Plan

• Kanban is an information source that can fully display the current status of the project. It is helpful to understand the work and processes in a real way.
• The Kanban method is simple, but the simpler and more flexible the method, the more support is needed from experience and details, and the practitioner needs to have sufficient experience and control.
• Three elements of Kanban: visualization, work-in-process (WIP), and management flow

1. The Kanban method frees the team from chaos by visualizing information that was not visible in the knowledge work, and teaches the team to learn to work in a "pull" way, that is, to respond quickly when receiving information, rather than Disordered "push".
2. Work should not adapt to time, but need to flow. Shift the focus from focusing on processes to focusing on flows.
3. Too much work in progress disrupts the flow. Stop the start and focus is complete.

note

To get the most out of the tools, it is not enough to use the tools alone. While using it, you should also systematically understand the ideas behind it and continuously optimize it through reasonable improvements.