Kanban

Kanban is a Japanese word. It means signboard or billboard. This concept is developed at Toyota to improve manufacturing efficiency.

Now, let's look into Kanban as methodology for software development:

Kanban is a method for managing the creation of products with an emphasis on continual delivery while not overburdening the development team. Like Scrum, Kanban is a process designed to help teams work together more effectively.

Benefits of Kanban:

• Shorter cycle times can deliver features faster.
• Responsiveness to Change:
• When priorities change very frequently, Kanban is ideal.
• Balancing demand against throughput guarantees that most the customer-centric features are always being worked.
• Requires fewer organization / room set-up changes to get started
• Reducing waste and removing activities that don€™t add value to the team/department/organization
• Rapid feedback loops improve the chances of more motivated, empowered and higher-performing team members

The 4 Core Principles of Kanban:

1. Start With What You Do Now
2. Agree to Pursue Incremental, Evolutionary Change
3. Respect the Current Process, Roles & Responsibilities
4. Encourage Acts of Leadership at All Levels

The 6 Practices of Kanban:

1. Visualize the Workflow
2. Limit Work in Progress
3. Manage Flow
4. Make Process Policies Explicit
5. Feedback Loops
6. Improve Collaboratively