Misc
The First Rule of Kanban Club
What is you do not talk about Kanban Club?
Understand current processes as they are actually practiced and respect existing roles, responsibilities and job titles. (The #1 Change Management Principle)
What is "Start with what you do now"?
We do this to all work to understand and learn the current flow of work through our system.
What is Visualize?
The process where Customers receive a number of Customer Kanban Tokens.
What is Constant WIP (aka CONWIP)?
The country that has the most Vending Machines per Capita.
What is Japan?
A term used for just -in-time (JIT) and “Lean Systems”
What is Kanban?
#1 reason for Agile Transformations failing.
What is organizational resistance to change?
All about seeking smoothness, timeliness, and anticipating customer needs.
Hint: The Disney movie Frozen.
What is FLOW?
The period between a new task’s appearance in your workflow and its final departure from the system.
What is Lead Time?
The First Toy To Be Advertised On Television
What is Mr. Potato Head?
The name that describes work that we do in our head.
What is Cognitive Work?
A Kanban Change Management Principle encourage acts of "this" at every level, from individual contributor to senior management.
What is Leadership?
A term used to describe partially finished goods awaiting completion.
(AKA: When a Problem Comes Along, you must!)
What is WIP?
A way to introducing Kanban to an organization or can be used to improve even an existing Kanban implementation.
What is STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban)?
The Total Number Of Dots On A Pair Of Dice.
Also, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
What is 42?
Japanese word that literally translates as Billboard or Signal Card
What is Kanban?
If you do not agree with the 4 Kanban Principles of Change, you should do this.
What is STOP?
A paper lantern that is one type of a feedback loop.
It can be a lifesaver or a bell of fear.
What is Andon?
The measurement from the moment when something enters the “in progress” stage and somebody is actually working on it.
What is Cycle Time?
The color of Aircraft Black Boxes.
What is Orange?