Kanban is evolutionary change for your business. It’s about not trying to change anything….initially. It’s about making your existing process visible and limiting your work in progress (WIP). Some people refer to Kanban as a framework, a method, a system for managing work. We chose Kanban because of the strong functional silos in this particular organization where we didn’t feel an Agile or Scrum approach would work.
We started by Kanbanizing functional teams and overall process. Over time, we killed our functional Kanban boards and moved to project boards. Was it evolutionary? Maybe, one thought we had after-the-fact was that it could have actually reenforced the functional silos simply because people saw “requirements – > development -> test” columns on the board. Hindsight is 20/20, we have no way of knowing if ripping the bandaid off with Scrum would have been better.
Health Dashboards
In an attempt to reduce administration, we implemented simpler health dashboards that...
Managing Risks and Issues
The focus of our enterprise stand-up meetings were to review risks, issues and blockers....
Get Kanban
We, well, the external consultants, started off by designing their own Kanban simulation...
Kanban in the PMO
The people in the PMO in this organization were a delight to work with! Awesome people...
Enterprise Portfolio Board
After we let our traditional Kanban board die, we waited until a couple of managers and...
Big Visible Room
At the beginning of the transformation, we took over a photo copier room in order to...