lean, kanban and tfs

Unlock Your Team’s Full Potential

Accelerate your Delivery and Reduce Overburdening

using

The Kanban Method with Team Foundation Server

Your Speaker

Dave White

Technical Program Director

Imaginet Resources Corp. - Microsoft Partner

• Management Board - Lean-Kanban University

• Advisory Board - LKU’s Accredited Kanban Training

program

– Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)

– Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP)

• numerous Microsoft certifications

– Microsoft Certified Trainer

• 15 years of experience

• specializes in helping organizations mature their

software development and information technology

practices

• passionate about Application Lifecycle Management

tooling, techniques, and mindsets and regularly talks

and teaches on a wide range of ALM topics

http://www.agileramblings.com

Why I Went Looking

Symptom

Release Date: in 9-12 months

“We don’t have staff for that project/work”

Lead time for Feature: 12 months

ETA of Bug Fix: ???

“That isn’t what we wanted.”

“We have to get this out right away!”

“The business unit built that?”

“That feature doesn’t matter anymore.”

“We’re really late.”

“We’re waiting on other teams.”

“We’ve got 100s of bugs waiting.”

Problem

Lots of work, not enough

capacity

• Quality suffers

• Features delayed

• Technical debt

• How much…

• Work??

• Capacity??

Disengaged people!

Another Problem

Why is this

still a

problem?

My Journey

What We’ve Tried So Far

Still Looking…• Chaos is … chaotic

• Waterfall not well suited

• Large batch, single pass,

long duration workflow

“If we just do it better…”

• Scrum is well suited

• prescriptive without

understanding context

And…

Adoption is hard!(People are weird!)

Something different…

Kanban

Method

WAIT!!

kanban?

kanban system?

Kanban Method?

The Kanban Method is…

…an approach to incremental, evolutionary process

change for organizations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)

Kanban Method

So Why The Kanban Method

• Designed to…

• Be context sensitive

• Foster organizational learning

• Be evolutionary

• Simple rules to govern complex systems

• Teams of people are systems

• Agile methods can emerge

• Fully embraces Agile Manifesto

• Lean methods can emerge

• Fully embraces Lean Software Development

Principles

• Tactic-agnostic

• Catalyst for organizational improvement

kaizen

To make better

Kanban Method

… and it’s easy to get started

Kanban Method

agile

lean

• 4 principles

• 6 practices

Kanban Method Principles

start with what you do now

agree to pursue incremental,

evolutionary change

initially, respect current roles, responsibilities & job titles

encourage acts of leadership

6 CORE PRACTICES

visualize

limit WIP

manage flow

make process policies

explicit

develop feedback mechanisms

improve collaboratively

Visualize

Visualize

Limit WIP

Limit WIP

Manage Flow

Make Process Policies Explicit

Explicit

Policies

Explicit

Policies

Develop Feedback Mechanisms

Improve Collaboratively with Science!

WHY ARE WE DOING ALL THIS?

To create a LEARNING capability in our organization

that enables CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT!

We must…

• have time to discover and implement kaizen opportunities

• create theories and experiment

• give ourselves opportunities to fail

• learn from our mistakes

The Benefits I’ve Seen

Benefits of Agile plus…

• Deeper understanding of demand

and capacity

• Constantly improving teams

• Exposed Constraints

Happy People

Better Teams = Better Business

• Predictability

• Agility

• Risk Management

• Governance

• Change Management

Solutions Are Just Waiting to be Discovered

• Work is understood!• Designed to understand demand

• Discover capacity

• People improve thesystem

• People are engaged!• Empowered

• Own the improvements

• Pull work

• Solving Our Problem• Our processes are

important

• Learning-focused approach

My Tools

Team Foundation Server 2012

Team Foundation Server 2012

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012

(TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core

of Microsoft's application lifecycle

management (ALM) solution.

Kanban on TFS 2012

Kanban on TFS starts with…

http://vsarkanbanguide.codeplex.com/

https://tfs.visualstudio.com/

Ability to track work

Ability to visualize work and flow

Tools Are Enablers

Work Items – The data that is important to you

Tools Are Enablers

Visualize

Tools Are Enablers

Visualize

CFD here

Tools Are Enablers

demo

How You Can Get Here

Where to Start

1. Find a Leader

2. Get Foundational

Knowledge

3. Visualize Your Work

4. Limit your WIP

5. Focus on HIGH Quality

Call to Action

• Engage

• Attend our Accredited Core Kanban class with our Visual

Studio day

• Reach out to Dave

• @agileramblings or dwhite@imaginet.com

• Join the Community!

• Lean-Kanban University

• Come see us at Lean Kanban North America 2013 in Chicago!

• kanbandev group (Yahoo)

• Limited WIP Society or your local Kanban User Group

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