Prioritise: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 5. Presented at the Sydney Limited WIP Society

1. Prioritise
Kanban Recipe for Success: Step Five
Jason Yip
j.c.yip@computer.org
jcyip@thoughtworks.com
@jchyip
http://jchyip.blogspot.com

2. HOMEWORK CHECK

3. What step(s) did you take to start
balance demand against
throughput?

4. The Recipe for Success
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Focus on Quality
Reduce WIP
Deliver Often
Balance Demand Against Throughput
Prioritise
Attack Variability to Improve Predictability

5. PRIORITISE

6. Optimise the value of, not just
quantity of, delivery

7. "There is little point in paying attention
to prioritization when there is no
predictability in delivery. Why waste
effort trying to order the input when
there is no dependability in the order of
delivery?”
David Anderson, Kanban

8. HOW MIGHT WE PRIORITISE?

9. Product Owner / Business
Sponsor

10. HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s
Opinion)

11. Debate / Consensus

12. Return on Investment

13. This feature provides $1M of value
but will delay release by 1 month.
Should we do it?

14. This feature provides $1M of value
but will delay release by 1 month.
Cost of delay is $2M / month.
Should we do it?

15. Cost of Delay
"We simply have no business trading money
for cycle time if we do not know the
economic value of cycle time."
Don Reinertsen, The Principles of Product
Development Flow

16. Cost of Delay functions
http://leanagilechange.com/leanagilewiki/index.php?title=Cost_of_Delay

17. Weighted Shortest Job First

18. CoD
WSJF=
Duration

19. HOMEWORK

21. What is the smallest step you
could take to move 1 level up
(or more)?

22. What is your plan to start that
step tomorrow?