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Kanban Workbook

A Practical Guide to using Kanban

Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing

We live in a world where we all have far more ideas than capacity to implement them. We think this is a good problem to have, it can be frustrating and depressing if you feel like you are always context switching and can never get anything done.

This is why we love Kanban. It's a simple framework which can radically change the way you work.

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This is a book for those who learn best by doing, prefer pictures to words, and stories to theory. Although the book does include words and theory, we've tried to keep it simple.

Join us as we follow the journey of a company called Growing Gardens, as they embark on a project to write a gardening book using Kanban. We will see how their board evolves as they embrace the principles of Kanban, and encounter problems along the way.

We'll give you just enough theory to understand how and why the principles work, and then a checklist to help you start your own board.

This works for any industry and team. After all we used Kanban to write this book!

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Karen Greaves

I've worked with agile approaches since 2001 when I joined an eXtreme Programming team as their "Onsite customer". After working in a range of roles and companies as an agile coach, trainer, and leader, I now focus on helping individuals, either though one on one coaching, or through books and courses that inspire them to grow their agile and leadership skills. I also work part time as an accreditor for ICAgile helping trainers around the world create engaging learning experiences.

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Samantha Laing

My passion for agile is lived daily at Growing Agile. My personal motto is ‘be brave’, and I embody this by taking on challenges one small step at a time. On weekends you can find me planting on the farm, building things or playing with my fur children.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Melissa Perri

About the Authors

Introduction

  1. IVisualise Your Work

1Growing Gardens: Visualise the Work

2Visualisation Tips

3Growing Gardens: Using the Board

4Apply: Visualise your Work

  1. IILimiting WIP and Pull

5Growing Gardens: Limiting Work and Pulling Work

6Tips for Limiting WIP and Enabling Pull

7Growing Gardens: Applying WIP Limits and Pull

8Apply: WIP limits and Pull

  1. IIIManage Flow

9Growing Gardens: Dealing with Blockages

10Tips for Managing Flow

11Growing Gardens: Buffers and Standups

12Apply: Manage Flow

  1. IVMake Policies Explicit

13Growing Gardens: Dealing with Other Work

14Tips for Making Policies Explicit

15Growing Gardens: Adding Swimlanes

16Apply: Make Policies Explicit

  1. VImprove Collaboratively

17Growing Gardens: Improving

18Tips for Improving Collaboratively

19Growing Gardens: Using the Board

20Apply: Improve Collaboratively

Appendix

Personal Kanban

Aeroplane Game

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This book is published on Leanpub by Growing Agile

Growing Agile is a partnership between Karen and Sam focused on helping companies and individuals be agile. We provide coaching, support and training to help you find the right path for your organization. Our goal as a company is as simple as our name – to keep growing agile.

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