While implementing and teaching Kanban I’ve heard a lot of myths about this method. Kanban means chaos, in Kanban you do not plan, in Kanban you never know a delivery date… and many more. Because of lack of deep understanding of this method it’s hard to see more tangible benefits. During this talk I’d like to inspire participants to take a closer look and focus on smaller and more evolutionary steps in order to build continuous improvement culture on team/department and organization level. I will show how powerful and deep Kanban Method can become while understood correctly.

1. LET'S DEBUNK KANBAN
MYTHS
S T A R T Y O U R E V O L U T I O N A R Y
J O U R N E Y T O D A Y !
by Katarzyna Czekaj

2. TO DEFINIE, MANAGE AND IMPROVE
SERVICES THAT DELIVER KNOWLEDGE
WORK!
KANBAN IS
A METHOD
It is what you do to a process.

3. Kanban Board means Kanban
Method
MYTH #1

4. 6 KANBAN
GENERAL
PRACTICES
Visualize Work
Limit Work in progress
Manage Flow
Make policies explicit
Implement feedback loops
Improve collaboratively, evolve
experimentally

5. UNDERSTAND
YOUR
PROCESS
• Identify work types
• Understand process behind
each work type
• Map the process
MAKE INVISIBLE VISIBLE

6. Visualization is a powerful tool
INCREASE MOTIVATIONMAKE BETTER DECISONS
ENCOURAGE FOCUSSINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH

7. Being able to asess situation;
understand obstacles; clear
prioritization
TRANSPARENCY
Having freedom to make
decision and allocate yourself
AUTONOMY
Collaborative environment that
continuously improve
MOTIVATION
Motivation

8. Kanban only works when you
don't have any deadlines.
MYTH #2

9. CLASSES OF SERVICES
TO DEAL WITH DEADLINES
An item that requires
immidiate teams' attention.
EXPEDITE
An item, which has usually
no cost of delay until
certain date – by when it
should be delivered.
FIXED DATE
Items that require normal
treatment.
STANDARD
Items are important – but
somewhere in the future,
which sometimes is not
strictly precised.
INTAGIBLE

10. f r o m : h t t p s : / / k a n b a n i z e . c o m / k a n b a n - r e s o u r c e s / k a n b a n - a n a l y t i c s / c y c l e - t i m e - s c a t t e r - p l o t /
The Development Team is using that expectation
as a flow transparency, inspection, and
adaptation mechanism.
OPTION #2
SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT
OR EXPECTATION

11. In Kanban you do not plan -
everything is a pure chaos!
MYTH #3

12. 7 KANBAN
CADENCES
f r o m : h t t p : / / w w w . d j a a . c o m / k a n b a n - c a d e n c e s

13. WHAT IS YOUR
ONE ITEM THAT YOU WILL START
YOUR EVOLUTIONARY JOURNAY
WITH?
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