Emergent  Pa+erns  for  Kanban  in  IT  Opera6ons  Patterns in IT Operations for Kanban

Dominica DeGrandis @dominicad

Emergent  Pa+erns  for  Kanban  in  IT  Opera6ons  

What  are  we  actually  trying  to  solve  with  Kanban?      

 Economically  balance    

demand  against  capability  

Ops Investigate Deliver Dev

Internal 10% Project 20%

Maintainable

Unplanned 70%

Make work visible

5 5 4

Tickets can’t enter workflow w/o dependent data

Who says Kanban boards need straight lines?

Electronic Board Dependency tags

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.

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(Jeff  Anderson)  

Dominica DeGrandis @dominicad

Pa+erns  of  Visualizing  Dependencies  -­‐    Area  on  board  

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.