Kanban values exercise

See announcement at http://edu.leankanban.com/blog/kanban-values-exercise-released

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Kanban Values Exercise

Mike Burrows
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Twitter: @asplake
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See also http://edu.leankanban.com/blog/kanban-values-exercise-released

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Exercise – Kanban’s Value System
• Map the 4 foundational principles & 6 core
practices to the 9 values
• Note: Includes 1 principle you haven’t seen before
• Hints: 3 practices map to 1 value; 2 values map to 1 practice
• Reflect & discuss:
• Choose 3 values that resonate with you personally
• Choose 3 values that seem important or challenging
in your current organizational context
• For each of those two categories, choose a top 3 for
your group and prepare to report back
• How would you arrange the values visually?
• See over for some possible designs if you get stuck

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Foundational Principles
(do these first; one unique value per space)
•  : Start with what you do now
•  : Agree to pursue evolutionary
change
•  : Initially, respect existing roles,
responsibilities and job titles
•  : Encourage acts of leadership at
all levels in your organization –
from individual contributors to
senior management

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Core Practices
(one value per space; one value occurs three times)

•  : Visualize
•  : Limit work-in-progress (WIP)
•  , : Manage flow
•  : Make policies explicit
•  : Implement feedback loops
•  : Improve collaboratively, evolve
experimentally (using models &
the scientific method)

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Values
• Transparency

• Balance
• Agreement

• Respect
• Understanding
• Collaboration

• Flow

• Leadership

• Customer focus

(in no particular order)

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Answers & Ideas

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Foundational Principles

• Understanding : Start with what you do now
• Agreement : Agree to pursue evolutionary
change
• Respect : Initially, respect existing roles,
responsibilities and job titles
• Leadership : Encourage acts of leadership at
all levels in your organization –
from individual contributors to
senior management

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Core Practices

• Transparency : Visualize
• Balance : Limit work-in-progress (WIP)
• Customer Focus , Flow : Manage flow
• Transparency : Make policies explicit
• Transparency : Implement feedback loops
• Collaboration : Improve collaboratively, evolve
experimentally (using models &
the scientific method)

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Possible Presentational Design 1
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(Bonus exercise: suggest names for the layers)

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Possible Presentational Design 2
“House of Kanban”