Essential Upstream Kanban

by Patrick Steyaert

Upstream Kanban – a way to create a steady flow of demand. Upstream Kanban visualizes the demand in terms of options that are explored to define and select the work items that will be committed. In Upstream Kanban minimal options catalyze the customer collaboration that is critical to a steady flow of demand.

http://leankanban.com/upstream/

Genres: Management

44 pages, ebook

Published October 1, 2017

Reviews

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read book about Kanban, presenting another perspective for improving flow and generating value for customers. It does not introduce Kanban concepts, but it extends them. It is more focused on the aspects until the "tasks" reach the commitment line, and when they are ready for UAT, and how those actions impact in the generation of value as part of an End-to-End Workflow. This book presents the importance of going beyond the System Lead Time and workers pulling tasks, including actions for customers and business users, as part of that E2E workflow.
In my opinion, once you know the basics about Kanban Systems, it is an interesting read to have a wider perspective.

[Frederico Cabral · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you have no experience with Kanban you will get some insights and probably will want to learn more about Kanban.

The informations are pretty basic. No real context is given. The use case is very simplistic. So many complex concepts are just exposed without further details. It is seems to be made to generate many questions on the readers. Those questions will just be answered (guess how?) through a formal training at LeanKanban

[Celso Martins · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book cover important aspects on flow management. The ideas to work with Customer Kanban and all logic to understand the dynamics in the upstream are amazing. The major downside I've found was the size of the introduction, that could be shrank IMO.

The book has concepts to be applied in the next week, as usual in this community.

[Toby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic quick read on the benefits of Upstream, Customer and Discovery Kanban. I had already been applying some of these concepts but it was great to see it nicely explained. It helped trigger some ways to innovate and improve our practice.

[Javier Castillo Suazo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very quick reading. Enough information to inspire ideas and implement ideas next week, but for mastering upstrem you will need more training (and practice for sure). It's a free ebook, you want more, you pay more.

[Arsen Lazursky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically what the book says, is that it takes two to tango, and no matter how efficient your team may be, it will only be as a effective as its customers are. Thankfully, this one is short (50 pages only), but for me personally this was kind of 'meh'

[Nathalie Karasek · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very Short. Content could probably easily be summarised in a blog post. Interesting but not what I expect from a _book_.

[Francisco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book to understand kanban in ome holistic dimension

[Toni SCRUMptious · Rating 5 out of 5]

System kanban, customer kanban, discovery kanban, proto-kanban: do you know the difference?
If not, read this!

[Mahmoud Ghoz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book talking about specific topic which is upstream in Kanban. It is very important to understand that if you are planning to work with Kanban.