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WHAT IS KANBAN?
Kanban is a Japanese word that means signboard or billboard
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It aims
to help you visualize your work, maximize efficiency, and improve continuously
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Recently, it started getting recognized by business units across various industries
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digite
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Each vertical lane should
reflect a distinct step in your process and move sequentially from left to right
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A simple
Kanban flow would be:
To Do - Unprioritized > To Do – Prioritized > Plan > Develop > Test > Launch > Done –
Pending Approval > Done -Done
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The main objective of representing work as a card
on the Kanban board is to allow team members to track the progress of work through its
workflow in a highly visual manner
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Cards on virtual Kanban boards
will often also feature screenshots and other technical details that are valuable to the
recipient
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Core Practices of Kanban Method
Six core practices need to be present for a successful implementation
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Visualize the workflow: Kanban systems use mechanisms such as a Kanban board to
visualize work and the process it goes through
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With this, you can
smooth out the flow of work, reduce lead times, improve quality, and deliver more
frequently
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Manage Flow: A Kanban system helps you manage flow by highlighting the various
stages of the workflow and the status of work in each stage
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People would not associate in and take part in something they do not
believe would be useful
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Use feedback loops to better understand your customers and their desires
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Improve Collaboratively, evolve Experimentally: the way to achieve continuous
improvement and sustainable change within an organization is through collaboratively
implementing changes based on scientifically proven methods, feedback, and metrics
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Benefits of Kanban
Identifying issues: an important practice of Kanban is to limit work in progress
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Flexibility: unlike other frameworks, Kanban isn't restrictive
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This makes it fit for teams in any
organization to use a Kanban board to collaborate, document work, and track their work
progress
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By using a shared visual management tool
each team member can see all actively involved in the project process and if any issues
appear, the transparency will allow them to be fixed quickly
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Empowers Teams: as every team member involved in a project can access the Kanban
board, everyone shares the responsibility for ensuring work gets moved along the board
properly and eventually reached the done column
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Balance Productivity: by sticking to the basic practices of Kanban, limiting the amount of
work in progress will keep workers from consuming time on menial tasks
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Increased Customer Satisfaction: the origin of the Kanban method, The Pull System,
implies that work is done when there's a demand
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