Track: Training: Project and Process / Time: Sunday 13:00 - 16:00 / Location: 1, University of Aarhus, Building 1421

It doesn’t matter what you’re producing—physical goods, software, or other products. When efficiency and workers’ time utilization become more important than the value of the work product, the production system is optimized for the wrong thing. The Kanban approach to product development explicitly recognizes this and instead amplifies the advantages of establishing flow—an idea inherent in most Agile processes though often not emphasized. Through presentation, games, simulation, and discussion, attendees of this workshop will learn about the “Why,” “How,” and “What” of Kanban. You’ll learn about Kanban basics: the Kanban board, the cumulative flow diagram, classes of service, and collaborative process design. And you’ll earn about the impact of sub-optimization and the sometimes deadly costs of delay common in many teams—even those that profess to be Agile. Once you understand the effects of workflows, queues, visualization, and limiting work in progress, you will make decisions about how to improve your team's processes by applying Kanban basics.