taking kanban to the masses - agile cambridge
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My experiences when coaching teams through adoption of agile techniques, specifically the rational and benefits of taking a kanban approach to managing work.TRANSCRIPT
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Taking kanban to the masses
John StevensonLean Agile Machine
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Who is John Stevenson
● Runs Limited WIP Society in London● Coach ● Atlassian ambassador in UK● Community geek
London Java, Graduate Devs, London Scala, London Clojurians, etc.
● Dabbles with Clojure
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Motivation
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My inspiration / motivation
● The Journey of Po to become the Dragon warrior
Asperation Passion Needs a goal and motivation
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A long journey of discovery
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The right motivation
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Po reaches his goal
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My Journey
● Started with Personal Kanban● Applied kanban to projects● Learn about a lot of barriers ● Coached receptive teams and
individuals● Sharing experiences with
conferences and Limited WIP Society talks
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Typical approach to kanban
● Workshop format discuss the purpose of kanban give people a situation it interact with - MAFIA roleplay games – negative and positive outcomes
● Encourage personal kanban helps with adoption and practice
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Why adopt kanban
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Lessons learnt in corporate kanban
A case study in pain and dissapointment
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Everything is fine
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Economic downturn
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Things not what they used to be
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Competition gaining / overtaking
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Shareholders arent happy
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Customers a little unhappy
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Frustrated staff
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”This is not a blame cluture”
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Running out of ideas...
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Loosership over leadership
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CxO decrees
You must work harder – make your targetsYou must work harder – make your targets
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Just fix it
● Take out the competition
● Outsourcing / insourcing
● Hire more consultants
● Efficiency improvements
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Competition now overtaking
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Shareholders ”sending the boys round” for a friendly
visit
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Really angry customers
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Staff even more frustrated
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Rest of Org in a bad way
● Confused, demotivated, undervalued● In-fighting● Barriers between
people and teams● High staff turn around● High number of consultants getting training● Outsourcing / insourcing
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Limited understanding of Value
● Table stakes – not just for dinner
● Differentiators – we dont need no stinking differentiators
● Spoilers – no time to watch TV● R&D – if the budget allows
● Where is the vision ??
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Sink to survive...
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So what's going on?
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Disfunctional Org
● Finds it hard to look at itself● Too busy to step back and understand root
causes● Too focused on the bottom line and budgets● More ”command & control” put in place
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Usual Suspects
● Ego driven devs● Empire builders
● ”The Management”● Budget driven PM's
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Nicky ”the nose” Tagliano
● Overbearing & Combative IT Director Tells staff what to do, but not why Doesnt communicate well
Relies on his own experience more than others
”I knows whats best for you”
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Fabiano Skankypants
● Ego driven developer Keeps everything to
himself Always ”the hero” Always in charge Always the loudest Always has to get his way
● Holding everyone to ramsom
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Allycat Fabiano● Confused and overworked
DevOps Deploys lots of patches Deals with poor
deployment docs Re-writes lots of
deployment scripts Lots of work from all dev
teams Multiple high priorities No vision on actual value
of their work
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MAFIA (toxic) Culture
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In seach of Trust...
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Kanban vs The MafiaKanban vs The Mafia
Give people a situation to explore
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MAFIA ”organisation”
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How would you make a change ?
● Big bang process improvement ? Prince2 / DSDM – takes time to adopt Scrum – only local improvements without buy-in XP – technical improvemets tiny compared to org
disfunction● More shouting ?● Achievement Culture ?
What are we trying to achive and how best should we do that?
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Is there a better way to change ?
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Introducing kanban
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The first rule of kanban...
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What is your goal?
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Set valuable goals
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The bare neccessities...
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Understanding your goals
Table stakes / foundations
SpoilersDifferentiators
Accelerators
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Next three goals
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G.R.O.W your goals● Goal
Visualise and emote..● Reality
Honest view of situation...● Options
Scenarios to achieve the goal● Way forward
Take and option and evaluate
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What outcome do you want?● You meet up with your friends a year from now
What do you want to tell them you have been doing?
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Change seems scary...
”The only thing to fear it fear itself”
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Explaining Kanban
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Kanban board - Wall of Facts
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Start with a simple approach
DoneDoing Planning
Current process is not always know, or often not understood or valued
- Start simple to get started, review and evolve - Standups & Retrospectives should include ”the process”
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Or Map the existing process
Planning Analysis Development QA Release
If you have more buy-in, map your existing process – Value stream mapping
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Let the board run...Planning Analysis Development QA Release
Let the problems reveal themselved, if not already apparent
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Get People Interacting
● We learn best by doing● Use Kanban boards to run the workshop● Get people building a board
Introduce different aspects along the way ● Using roleplay and games to introduce further
concepts Limited WIP, Fast Feedback, consistent flow of
work
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Opportunities to change
● Visualising work show opportunities
● Managing work load give you time to change
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Let kanban help you learn
● Work on only on one thing at once● Everyone responsible for any priority changes
Even your manager● If forced to switch, record and reset task to
begining Review ”task switching” overload
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Add WIP Limits
Planning Analysis Development QA Release (1)
● WIP limits show the constraints in the process Start to adjust work in other areas...
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Show work ready
Planning Analysis Dev Release (1)Ready toRelease (2)
● Ready lanes give you options on what to work on next
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Balance work to resources
Ready forAnalysis (4) Analysis (1)
Ready forDev(4) Release (1)
Ready toRelease (2)
● WIP limited to resources of the team Promotes faster feedback Helps identify areas that need more resources / change in practices
Dev (4)
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Pull system
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Be as creative as needed
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Dont forget the card design
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Beware being overworked
● Huge backlog is demoralising
● Everything is a priority
● Never seem to get anywhere
● Never sure what value you are delivering
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Experditing
● Visualisation for a high priority task Big red sticker Experditing lane Record other tasks being blocked
● Review why you get high priority task Consider it a constraint / bottleneck
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Experditing lane
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Ask about Vision
● Step up and ask the difficult questions Five whys You wont be thanked for it because often no
answer is known Need to hightlight this as an issue
● Encourage the business to communicate its intent with you
Help them help you become more effective
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Lessons learnt from Lean & System thinking
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Explaining flow
● Flow gives you fast feedback Limited work on progress means low time between
roles – reduced overall cycle time
● Establish a regular cadence – consistent pace If you are cycling from London to Brigton, you dont set
off at top speed
● Small sized tasks help attain flow● WIP limits create a pull system, driving flow
Work is done at the speed of the slowest process eg. Boy scouts in ”The Goal”
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Data dashboard effect
● Manager can instantly see what you are working on
● Manager can evaluate priorities easily Or go back and ask for clarification with business
● Gives data on issues Recording task swapping, time to work on tasks Data to review at retrospective on current
approach
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Kanban effect
● Fast feedback between people Devs get fast feeback if problems releasing BA's improve requirements from dev feedback Business feeds back sooner to steer development
● Adapt to changing priorities easier Impact of changes easier to see
● Work effort becomes predictable and trust increases● Effort is converted into working software sooner
See results sooner – identify work with business benefit
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Subtle ”Theory of Constraints”
● What is stopping you achieve your goals ? Identify all the current challenges
● Find how to work effectively With respect to the biggest challenge
● Incrementally improve around biggest challenge
● Review the challenges
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Drop the Backlog
● The backlog is a omnipresent sign of overload
Useful for pushing back to the management
Bad for team moral Hide it away (eg. JIRA)
● When team are in tune with value, tasks flow more naturally – opportunities are not drowned out
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Value stream mapping
● Weird name, important concept● The (often wide) path to getting things done● The activities that help get things done
effectively
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Cost of Delay
● Value hard to assess● What if we dont do it● What if we dont
deliver when you want
● What else could you be doing ?
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Predictability / Cadence
● Work towards smaller task
● Feedback from board helps you understand your capacity
● A 400Km cycle ride needs a good cadence to survive
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Change at the speed of acceptance
● Effective change cannot be pushed
● kanban estoles pull, change should be pulled
● Odd that some many agile projects start and end with a big bang
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Lean Startup
● Business canvas model● Real options● Last responsible moment● Least responsible change
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Lessons from Service Desk
● Variation of personal kanban Sticky notes at the side of the keyboard One priority at once Need business reason to change priorities
Record reason and number of times you had to revisit the task
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DevOps overload
● Lots of last minute patches
● Deployment like buses, nothing for a few days then three come at once for the same night
● DevOps have no time to script deployments
● Have to deal with long, boring deployment documents
● Repeatedly swiched from infrastructure work, vastly increasing time taken.
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DevOps Goal keeper
● Team rotates people around role ● Goalkeeper fields all issues● Rest of team allowed to
focus on a (bigger) task● Use visual indicator to show
who is the Goalie
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Summary of Kanban
● Visualse work● Manage WIP● Engage with business
Shared ownership● Encourage realistic
priorities
● Helps you stay sane
● Show you are productive
● Deal with micro-management
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Final form of feed back
● Find a better company
● Start your own thing
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Thank you
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