Kanbanλ︎
A lean approach to organising tasks and continually improving ways of working
Kanban encourages teams to
- visualise the work of the team (kanban board)
- review and optomise they way the work
- limit work in progress & task switching (stop starting and start finishing)
- flow
- define work in consistent sizes (a day to a week)
- think of work as a value driven system
- pull system from the end of the workflow to the start
Theory of Constraints
The theory of constraints is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints
Visualising workλ︎
A kanban board visualises the flow of tickets through a workflow, highlighting any number of factors
- status of work (todo, doing, done or more involved steps)
- who is working on the ticket
- history of the ticket (moving backward and forward between states shows churn)
- limits for work in progress (limited WIP), limits on particular workflow steps (e.g. doing) or limits on type of tickets