Projektværktøjsdagen 2013: Tobias Andersson Brugen af digitale Kanban-tavler er steget eksplosivt i alle slags organisationer. Hvorfor? Hvordan hjælper disse visuelle værktøjer mange brancher til bedre samarbejde og effektivitet?

1. Growing popularity
of kanban boards
- How come?
Tobias Andersson
COO
Projectplace International AB

2. What is a kanban board?
Kanban is derived from the Japanese words:
kan = visual signal, ban = card

3. Lean and Kanban is spreading
from production and product
development to many industries
and business areas.

4. the digital Kanban board is spreading via
Lean & Agile uptake in IT
Nonlinear Management (NLM) techniques and strategies
started to appear 40 years ago.
Examples: Systems Theory (CAS), Concurrent Engineering,
Toyota Kaizen, Lean Production
Important principles & methods
• Self-organized teams
• Control through transparency and “pull” of work items
• Workflows should be visible for everyone
• Kanban-inspired Visual Management Tools

5. Visualization accelerates learning
and the ability to prioritize
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Kanban is visualizing work and
limit work-in-progress.
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Visualizing work allows us to transform our
conceptual and threatening workload into
an actionable, context-sensitive flow.
(We see what we are doing.)
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Limiting our work-in-progress helps us
complete what we start and understand the
value of our choices.

9. Ability to self-organize is the key
to high-performance teams
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The board is a natural gathering point
to discuss issues, solve problems
and learn
Psychological projection onto the
visual cards makes uncomfortable
feelings more easy to handle
The kanban board makes behavior
clearly visible

10. Collaborative Planning reinforces
efficient project behavior
Group psychology and modern behavior
science can explain why!

11. The Zeigarnik effect promote follow though
“The psychological tendency to remember
an uncompleted task rather than a
completed one”
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Dragging a card to the second column on the kanban board communicates
that you have commited and started to do something.
It increases accountability and reduces procrastination.
Dragging a card to the last column, representing finishing a task,
reduces cognitive load and perceived stress.

12. Connecting and tracking work on kanban
boards with scheduled deliverables

17. The Technology is Ready
“The digital kanban board fits like a glove on smartphones,
tablets and large TV-screens.”

18. Growing popularity of kanban boards
- How come?
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Lean and Agile uptake in IT is spreading the digital kanban board
concept in general
Visualization accelerates learning and the ability to prioritize
Collaborative planning reinforces efficient project behavior
Transparency provides management control with less overhead
The technology is ready

19. Projectplace
where projects succeed