A lightening talk on Kanban and dependencies given at BayLISA, Dec 2012.

1. Patterns in IT Operations
Emergent
Pa+erns
for
Kanban
in
IT
Opera6ons
for Kanban
Dominica DeGrandis @dominicad

2. Emergent
Pa+erns
for
Kanban
in
IT
Opera6ons

3. What
are
we
actually
trying
to
solve
with
Kanban?
Economically
balance
demand
against
capability

4. Make work visible
4 5 5
Investigate Dev Ops Deliver Maintainable
Internal
10%
Project
20%
Unplanned
70%

5. Tickets can’t enter workflow w/o dependent data

7. Who says Kanban boards need straight lines?

8. Electronic Board Dependency tags

9. What’s the point?
Show the risk in your organization.
Dependencies, Interrupts and Specialization
increase risk. Consider visualizing them.
Visualizing risk is powerful for IT
Operations teams.

11. “We
can’t
plan
our
way
to
a
perfect
model.
We
have
to
discover
it”
(Jeff
Anderson)

12. Dominica DeGrandis
@dominicad

13. Pa+erns
of
Visualizing
Dependencies
-­‐
Area
on
board

14. Pa+erns
of
Visualizing
Dependencies
• Create
an
area
for
dependencies
on
the
board.
• Add
a
dependency
symbol
to
the
6ckets
on
the
board
• Show
dependencies
on
a
Dependency
matrix.