Management support is vital to a successful Kanban adoption. In order to support your Kanban intiative, the savvy manager will want to understand what Kanban is, and the associated risks, costs, and benefits. They will have questions, such as:
- What is Kanban, and how is it different from other methods that I am familiar with, such as Scrum and waterfall?
- What organisational changes do we need to make to adopt Kanban?
- What are the goals and expected benefits of Kanban?
- What are some successful adoption strategies?
- What are the risks associated with adopting Kanban?
- Can you provide me some case studies of both successful and failed Kanban initiatives, and the factors contributing to these outcomes?
- What metrics can we collect with Kanban, and how can we use them to understand and improve our delivery of value to our customers?
- What is my role? What can I do as a manager to ensure our success?
This tutorial will provide you with answers to these questions and more. You will take away resources you can use directly to inform your management of what Kanban is, and how it will help your team or organisation improve. You will be able to demonstrate how Kanban can improve predictability and transparency, provoke change, highlight systemic weaknesses, and form the foundation for a process of real continuous improvement.
