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Using Takt Time to Find Problems Earlier The idea of takt time comes from car manufacturing. It shows the elapsed time between two completely assembled cars leaving the factory floor. If the takt time is 2 hours, it means that the factory produces 12 cars a day (24h/2h = 12). With the use of takt time people in car manufacturing can detect problems in production earlier.
more...The Kanban Board is a Mirror When I hear the expression we need to change our Kanban board - it happens quite often -, I think about the analogy between a mirror and a Kanban board.
more...When Not to Use Swim Lanes Swim lanes on the Kanban board are really handy when different software versions have to walk through the same path or flow. However, they can be deceptive when instead of versions, different development phases have their own swim lanes. Let's say that an imaginary team decides to upgrade its Kanban system and adds the design that precedes the development phase to the board.
more...Visualize and Manage Team Dependency I've been thinking for a while now about how to visualise and manage (reduce) the dependencies between teams. I was watching a presentation the other day where the speaker was using markers to see the current position of certain work items in the flow (in a completely unrelated presentation), and I started to think what if we used the marker concept to see where a work item done by a specific team ends up.
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