February 2014
Beginner
360 pages
10h 29m
English
Overview
Kanban in Action is a down-to-earth, no-frills, get-to-know-the-ropes introduction to kanban. It's based on the real-world experience and observations from two kanban coaches who have introduced this process to dozens of teams. You'll learn the principles of why kanban works, as well as nitty-gritty details like how to use different color stickies on a kanban board to help you organize and track your work items.
About the Technology
About the Book
Too much work and too little time? If this is daily life for your team, you need kanban, a lean knowledge-management method designed to involve all team members in continuous improvement of your process.
Kanban in Action is a practical introduction to kanban. Written by two kanban coaches who have taught the method to dozens of teams, the book covers techniques for planning and forecasting, establishing meaningful metrics, visualizing queues and bottlenecks, and constructing and using a kanban board.
Written for all members of the development team, including leaders, coders, and business stakeholders. No experience with kanban is required.
What's Inside
- How to focus on work in process and finish faster
- Examples of successful implementations
- How team members can make informed decisions
About the Reader
About the Authors
Marcus Hammarberg is a kanban coach and software developer with experience in BDD, TDD, Specification by Example, Scrum, and XP. Joakim Sundén is an agile coach at Spotify who cofounded the first kanban user groups in Europe.
Quotes
Provides fantastic and patient detail.
- From the Foreword by Jim Benson, Author of "Personal Kanban"
No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!
- Craig Smith, Unbound DNA
Many good examples clarify the theory and distill the authors’ practical experience.
- Sune Lomholt, Danske Bank
A practical way to start with kanban … and learn the theory along the way.
- Ernesto Cárdenas Cangahuala, Avantica Technologies
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