Topics
- House of Lean
- Defining Kanban
- Motivation for Kanban
- Managing Quality
- Work In Progress (WIP)
- How to Prioritize
- Demand vs. Throughput
- Sources of Variability
- Value Stream Mapping (seeing the big picture)
- The Value Stream
- Making Work Visible
- Value Stream Lab (Part 1- Defining the Start and the End)
- Card Walls
- Demand Analysis
- Allocating Capacity
- The Work Card
- Value Stream Lab (Part 2- Designing the Card Wall)
- Identifying Work Item Types
- Sizing Work Items
- Building User Stories
- User Story Lab
- Story points
- Visual Control
- Pull vs. Push
- Theory of Constraints
- Service Levels: Class of Service
- Throughput Application Lab (Incorporating Class of Service into the Card Wall)
- Daily Standup Meetings
- After Meetings
- Queue Replenishment Meetings
- Release Planning Meetings
- Triage
- Geographically Dispersed Teams
- The Importance of Cadence
- Limiting Work-In-Progress
- Identifying Bottlenecks
- Removing Waste from the Value Stream
- Lab – The Dot Game: Sizing Work-In-Progress Lab (Factoring Bottlenecks to determine Queue Sizing and the impact to WIP)
- WIP
- Lead Time Throughput and Measuring Flow
- Blocked Work
- Quality
- Failure Load
- Summary Session
- Lab – Putting It Altogether
- This lab is devoted to incorporating specific Kanban principles to current in-** house issues. Students to provide real examples of work flow and work with the instructor to get the foundation for Kanban setup.
- Deliverable: Card wall the students can begin using immediately.