Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Kanban in Action
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- front matter
- Part 1. Learning kanban
- 1 Team Kanbaneros gets started
- Part 2. Understanding kanban
- 2 Kanban principles
- 3 Visualizing your work
- 4 Work items
- 5 Work in process
- 6 Limiting work in process
- 7 Managing flow
- Part 3. Advanced kanban
- 8 Classes of service
- 9 Planning and estimating
- 10 Process improvement
- 11 Using metrics to guide improvements
- 12 Kanban pitfalls
- 13 Teaching kanban through games
- Appendix A. Recommended reading and other resources
- Appendix B. Kanban tools
- Index
Product information
- Title: Kanban in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617291050
You might also like
book
Test Driven Development: By Example
Quite simply, test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development. While some fear is …
audiobook
The Design of Everyday Things
First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came science. Now, Donald A. Norman, …
book
Writing Great Specifications
Writing Great Specifications teaches you how to capture executable software designs in Gherkin following the SBE …
book
Making Work Visible
"""In this timely book (title not final) by Information Technology time management expert Dominica DeGrandis, the …