Learning Resources
Kanban Learning Resources
The resources for learning more about Kanban can be found here
Definition of Workflow (DoW)
This competency covers how to look at your processes to discover your existing workflows and analyze them to define the policies in place for managing work. Based on DoW from PSK.
- Taming the chaos for managers: Learning to swim by Julia Wester on EverydayKanban.com
- First, decide what not to do by Julia Wester, EverydayKanban.com
- Benefits of WIP Limits by Rachaelle Lynn, Planview.com
- Can you afford not to limit work in progress?
Visualization
This competency covers how to take the information generated from your discovery of your work and it’s workflow and use it to create a compelling, informative visualization that can be used to effectively manage the flow of work.
- Make your visualization about the work, not the workers by Julia Wester on EverydayKanban.com
- Sabotage by avoidance by Julia Wester, EverydayKanban.com
- 5 Steps to Customizing Your Kanban Board by Julia Wester, LeanKit.com
Flow-based Analytics
This competency covers the core flow-based analytics and how to use them to understand and improve your situation.
- Books by Daniel Vacanti
- Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
- When Will It Be Done?
- Why Vanity Metrics are Dangerous: Holding a Mirror Up to… by Julia Wester, LeanKit.com
- Can “Bad” IT Metrics Ever Be Good? by Julia Wester, LeanKit.com
