Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. You're not sure what your teammates are working on, and management isn't helping. If your team is struggling with any of these symptoms, these four case studies will guide you to project success. See how Kanban was used to significantly improve time to market and to create a shared focus across marketing, IT, and operations. Each case study comes with illustrations of the Kanban board and diagrams and graphs to help you see behind the scenes.
Learn a Lean approach by seeing how Kanban made a difference in four real-world situations. You'll explore how four different teams used Kanban to make paradigm-changing improvements in software development. These teams were struggling with overwork, unclear priorities, and lack of direction. As you discover what worked for them, you'll understand how to make significant changes in real situations.
Real–World Kanban | Mattias Skarin (Author) | O′Reilly
Features:
The four case studies in this book explain how to:
• Improve the full value chain by using Enterprise Kanban
• Boost engagement, teamwork, and flow in change management and operations
• Save a derailing project with Kanban
• Help an office team outside IT keep up with growth using Kanban
What seems easy in theory can become tangled in practice. Discover why “improving IT” can make you miss your biggest improvement opportunities, and why you should focus on fixing quality and front-end operations before IT. Discover how to keep long-term focus and improve across department borders while dealing with everyday challenges. Find out what happened when using Kanban to find better ways to do work in a well-established company, including running multi-team development without a project office.
Real-World Kanban
Table of Contents
Part 1: Lean Applied: Four Stories of Improving Using Kanban
Chapter 1: You Hold the Key to Your Future
What Is Kanban?, What Is Lean?, Find Opportunities to Improve, Improve the Organization with Long-Term Thinking, Key Points to Remember
Chapter 2: Enterprise Kanban: Improve the Full Value Chain
The Challenge: Improve Time to Market at a Traditional Company, How We Got Started, How the Process Worked, What Lessons We Learned, Comparing Now and Before, Make Your Own Improvements
Chapter 3: Kanban in Change Management
The Challenge: Managing Dependencies Without Burning Out, How We Got Started, How Our Process Worked, How We Continuously Improved, What Lessons We Learned, Comparing Now and Before, Make Your Own Improvements
Chapter 4: Using Kanban to Save a Derailing Project
The Challenge: Restoring Trust by Solving the Right Problem, How We Got Started, How Our Process Worked, How We Continuously Improved, What Lessons We Learned, Comparing Now and Before, Make Your Own Improvements
Chapter 5: Using Kanban in the Back Office: Outside IT
The Challenge: Keeping Up with Growth, How We Got Started, How Our Process Worked, How We Continuously Improved, What Lessons We Learned, Comparing Now and Before, Make Your Own Improvements
Part 2: Appendix
Appendix 1: Introducing Concepts
The Elevator Pitch, What Is a Concept?, What’s the Big Idea?, How to Get Going with Concepts, Concept Layout
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