What is Kanban? Understanding Kanban an Agile Framework - Agile Digest

In this video, we'll dive into the Kanban framework, an Agile methodology that emphasizes continuous delivery, flexibility, and customer satisfaction.
We'll explore the core principles of Kanban, including visualizing work, limiting work in progress, and managing flow, and discuss how they can be applied to different types of projects and teams. You'll also learn about the benefits of using Kanban, such as increased productivity, faster cycle times, and better quality.
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Great Video. Very Useful. Thank You. I have a question on the cumulative flow slide where you marked Lead Time from yellow to Blue. Isn’t it supposed to be from Yellow to Green ( Done) ( green is not there in graph though )?

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[@redemsion2]

This was great! However, you confused me on CFD. Cycle time and Lead time arrows (endpoints) are not in sync with what you are describing. The colors are: yellow, orange, blue, and pink. 1. You say cycle time is from red (pink) to blue, but the arrow shows from red (pink) to orange which represents DEV - QA. 2. You say from Blue to end of UAT is the Lead time but the arrow shows end of UAT to beginning of Backlog. So what is it? Let me know. WIP is correct. Again great job!!

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[@shubhrendusinha]

Great explanation and presentation as always. I was looking for such an intro video on Kanban. However I have a question. Since backlog items can come from multiple sources and there is no PO to prioritize the backlog, how the dev team will pick "one" item if thats the only allowable number as per their WIP limit at present. Its possible that there are multiple items lying in backlog marked as highest priority - since they all come from different source and hence marked that way as per specific business community.

[@AgileDigest]

in few cases, there are someone there who guide to pick the PBIs. The team is self organized and should be able to take the most important item first and follow finish first approach. The Team can define class of services to cater high priority, Time bound or Intangible items to optimize the pull based system. Even If the inflow of high priority tickets are too much, the team can best perform by using the WIP limit, The team can increase the member count or can create another team to manage unexpected big numbers of high priority issues. Every day the team can have a Sync meeting of 15 minutes to make the strategy of the day keeping the backlog and in progress items with respect to their class of service.

[@farhanajannat135]

Next month I join a company they are using kanban. So I need some idea about kanban.thanks for sharing some idea

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if the kanban board miss to do and acceptance or estimation column what will be the effect??

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[@alexandeap]

Hello thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have a question. What does UAT mean?

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User Acceptance Test

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UAT stands for User Acceptance Testing. This is typically the testing done by client users, before they give a go ahead for deployment in production

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Great presentations. In Kanban are there Story points ?

[@murugankasirajan6514]

No.

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I have a Software Maintenance Project where we work on Tickts and small enhancements.Can you let me know whether i can use Kanban for Daily Tracking.Also How do i generally choose between KANBAN vs SCRUM

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Hi Veronica, The basic criteria to select Scrum and Kanban is If you can plan for two to threes weeks and fridge the commitment for two to three weeks. You can go with Scrum. where your deliverable will be delivered at the end of every sprint (ideally 2 or 3 weeks). with a same cadence sprint over sprint. But if you have work for Production support, or your works demand frequent release (1 or multiple time in a week), adhoc requests, frequent change on priority, etc, using Kanban will be better approach here. If you work for both enhancement and support, I suggest to separate the nature of work between two teams (scrum & Kanban) if possible. This is very generic answer. There are many practical scenarios to take the decision, how best we can structure the team and approach .

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[@ashishmehta1113]

Thanks for the video. I need to know what if there is a bug, would tester move the story to the Dev - wip again? Because you mentioned in the beginning that stories moves from left to right only. How the bug will be handled? Further, if developer's wip limit is already reached and tester has to introduce a bug about stories then Dev - wip will face overflow. Thanks again.

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Ashish, There are many ways on working on this situation. the WIP Limit is just to managed the flow with best optimized way. the goal is to complete the story as a whole from left to right side. if the story is currently at testing Phase and a Bug is created. That Bug can by created as child (subtask) of the story, the Bug/Subtask you can call as Story defects. It will be raised under the column where it will get fixed, generally "development" column (The defect can also go to backlog or todo based on the priority or severity). The WIP Limit you can configure to Include or not include the subtasks. The ALM tools will show the column as Red, if it is crossing the limit, that indicate the entire team (not only developer) needs to focus on that column to close the newly created defects, and bring down the total work items under defined limit for that column. The Tester will keep the story on the column of testing if the exit criteria of that columns restrict to move the story forward. for example : The Exit Criteria for testing column can be "All P1 and P2 has to be resolved". So if the defect is P3 or P4, You can still go ahead and move the story as testing done.

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Thanks for quick reply! About "The Exit Criteria for testing column can be "All P1 and P2 has to be resolved". So if the defect is P3 or P4, You can still go ahead and move the story as testing done.", you mean even if we have bugs we can move the story in the testing done, but main story will be moved to UAT when even the defects are fixed? What if the task is moved to complete and a month later there comes a issue on that task? Would we create a subtask in that scenario too? How do we manage the exit criteria? Can you share your contact number if possible? I would highly appreciate that.

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Please Send us a mail at [e-mail].

[@ar-arreyes4497]

Are the metrics available also in AZure DevOps where Kanban Board Integrated?

[@AgileDigest]

Not yet

[@nassimhannachi5590]

Hi, thanks for the explanation it's awesome. I have question : if we take your example WIP in dev is 4 and it's full and in testing WIP is 3 and the testeur find bug from the last user story. how we manage this situation ? the dev related to this story will stop what he is doing and fix the bug or we should document all bugs and take it when we have room ? and it's same question when we get to UAT shall we stop all so it goes to dev and tester ? thanks

[@AgileDigest]

WIP is applied on User story, The defects are either child of that user story or and Independent Bug. If its a child of user story it will not impact the WIP, If its a independent bug, it will wait in the backlog

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[@PavanKumar-nw5jn]

Niladri, we are introducing Kanban and my team size is 7. My question is work in limit you mentioned as not more than 4 is it for the complete team. Am I understanding it correct? Please clarify. Iam new to Kanban.

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For each team member, the WIP limit should be min 2 and max 5. You should start with the WIP limit at 3 for the team member.

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@@user-vh5hs1vu6c, got it. Thank you !

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Why was the scope portion deleted ?

[@AgileDigest]

Not sure which scope portion you are talking about, Can you please elaborate ?

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Have clarity in thoughts. Yourself seem to be confused, add to it focus on bettering Grammar.

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Nice video , but I think its better to use real software projects examples than park or movie theatre. .

[@AgileDigest]

Agree

[@10n1withk.o2]

i don't agree with the movies and park example used as the KANBAN board is not time boxed and the numbers of tasks pick up is regulated by the WIP limit. my take

[@AgileDigest]

Any suggestions for the viewers?

[@ankushgattani]

Great explanation but English grammar threw me off a little. Amazing from the knowledge front, presenting way could be better.

[@Ar2r27]

Kanman Method by DA not kANBAN Toyota !

[@sudharajaram8645]

Struggling for words. Not a good way of presentation. Not a great orator. The basics of Kanban could have been explained in a better way.

[@AgileDigest]

Thank you Sudha for your feedback. We all have opportunities to improve.