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This group discusses the use of The Kanban Method to drive change in technology businesses, as defined in David J. Anderson's book, "Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business" and Corey Ladas' "Scrumban" and Henrik Kniberg and Mattias Skarin's "Kanban and Scrum - Making the Most of Both."

The Kanban Method was first described by David Anderson in 2007. Since then many have adopted it and reported successful implementations. This group aims help current practitioners. New members are recommended to visit the Limited WIP Society, where a list of useful resources can be found, including relevant blogs and published articles.

David Anderson has defined the Kanban Method as
First follow the foundational principles

  • Start with what you do now
  • Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change
  • Initially, respect current roles, responsibilities & job titles
then adopt the core practices
  1. Visualize
  2. Limit WIP
  3. Manage Flow
  4. Make Process Policies Explicit
  5. Improve Collaboratively (using models/scientific method)

Alistair Cockburn has referred to these as the "Kanban imperatives", however, all 5 are not essential initially. Partial adoption would merely be considered a shallow implementation while the presence of all 5 would show a deep implementation.

Members are encouraged to focus on inquiry, dialogue, ideas and understanding, rather than advocacy, argument, individuals and defensiveness, and asked to keep posts relevant to Kanban. Thanks

We want to maintain a very high signal to noise ratio on this list. As such, announcements and commercial posting will not be tolerated unless they are from regular contributors, and specifically about a Kanban related topic. Posters of commercial content and advertising will be banned. No exceptions.

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Re: The value of lead time
There are two definitions of "cycle time" in usage in different areas of the Lean space. In moving line manufacturing "cycle time" is the time between each
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:45 pm
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Re: The value of lead time
This is also how I personally use "lead time" now. ... -- blog: http://eikonne.wordpress.com twitter: http://twitter.com/eikonne
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:47 pm
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Re: The value of lead time
The definition below is what I have been calling "Cycle Time". Does this mean: 1. Cycle Time and Lead Time are the same thing? 2. Cycle Time is something
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:53 am
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Re: The value of lead time
Hi Nikolay, For me the lead time reduction means to find the team's or organisation's actual lead time, which makes its throughput manageable and predictable.
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:44 am
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[ANN} #lssc12 Reminder - Early Bird Expiring
Folks, This is your week to get your early bird registration in for Lean Software & Systems in Boston May 13-18. Register before Saturday night to get Lean
Posted - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:25 am
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