Kanban Adoption

Kanban has emerged as an alternative to Scrum as well as an approach that can be used in conjunction with Scrum to improve performance. How do you know whether Scrum or Kanban is a better fit for your needs? Or whether you could benefit by using both?

From using Kanban at the individual team-level to adopting Kanban at the program-level to provide greater visibility into a project, program, or product development effort, Construx can help.  We’ll help you, whether you’re using Scrum or not, to quickly determine and implement Kanban in a way that works for your unique situation.

Questions and Issues Will Kanban work in our situation? Should we use Kanban or Scrum? Or both? How do we get started? What data will be available to support making and meeting commitments?

Typical Solution Meet with key stakeholders to understand the current situation Provide a Kanban overview Analyze and map out current workflows Identify classes of service Set up Kanban boards and work in progress (WIP) limits Determine how the team will continuously improve

Results You Can Expect Improved visibility into the work of a team, project, program, or portfolio Clear criteria that support delivering high-quality software Metrics (cycle time, lead time) identified Continuous improvement approach in place