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Topic 5.3 - Key Practices and Timing
Four Key Practices
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Visualize the workflow: You cannot improve what you cannot see, knowledge work needs a way to show progress, kanban boards are one of the ways to display progress.
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Lead using a team approach: Without a team and leadership, nothing of significant value can be created or improved.
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Reduce the batch size of your efforts (reduce BASE): Science and the work from Donald G. Reinertsen has shown that when the batch unit of work is decreased, more can be accomplished. This principle goes beyond simply Limiting Work in Progress.
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Learn and improve continuously: This practice implies reflecting so that one can learn from experience, and it aligns with performing retrospectives and embracing Kaizen. In addition Open Kanban itself is open source and it welcomes contributions or extensions to the method.
Cycle Time
What do you count as the cycle time then? It doesn’t often happen, that your employees are just sitting around with nothing to do (hopefully!), so, as the new order comes in, it will first spend some time in waiting for its implementation turn, it may be days or weeks before someone is available to actually work on this. But once they do the moment the real work on this order starts is the beginning of the cycle time, lasting until the work on it is completed.
Cycle time is a key metric for Kanban Teams, cycle time is the amount of time it takes for a unit of work to travel through the team’s workflow from the moment work starts to the moment it ships. By optimizing cycle time, the team confidently forecast the delivery of future work.
Lead Time
The lead time starts being measured as soon as a request appears.
Whether it’s a request for a new product, a feature or whatever your business works on the happy incident of a new business arriving to your headquarters is the beginning of the lead time.
Última modificación: viernes, 8 de abril de 2022, 11:12