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The Basics of Kanban: A Popular Lean Framework
Do you feel overwhelmed with multiple things that need your attention? Do you feel like you’re always switching from one task to another, struggling to focus on any one thing for long enough to make progress? Do you feel that you work all day, but can’t get anything to complete? Do you feel that you are not as productive as you would like to be?
Does your team have enough visibility on work items that each member is working on? Does your team struggle to track external team dependencies? Does your team stay focused and motivated? Does your team meet its’ commitments?
Kanban is a popular Lean framework and a workflow visualization approach to managing any professional or personal work in an effective and efficient manner. This book is written to provide you with a complete reference guide on Kanban to assist you on your journey towards success.
What will you learn with this book?
- What Is Kanban?
- Why Kanban?
- Kanban Principles and Practices
- Kanban Board
- Kanban Tools
- WIP Limits
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
- Lead Time
- Cycle Time
- Flow Efficiency
- Blockers Clustering
- Throughput or Velocity
- Scrum and Kanban
- Scrumban
- DevOps and Kanban
- Kaizen and Kanban
- Kanban Tools
- Kanban Examples
Grab your copy today. Learn how to effectively manage your personal and professional work with Lean Kanban.
This is Book #3 in the series titled 'The Basics Of Customer-First Product Management'.
Other books include:
The Basics Of Agile and Lean (Book #1)
The Basics Of SCRUM (Book #2)
Does your team have enough visibility on work items that each member is working on? Does your team struggle to track external team dependencies? Does your team stay focused and motivated? Does your team meet its’ commitments?
Kanban is a popular Lean framework and a workflow visualization approach to managing any professional or personal work in an effective and efficient manner. This book is written to provide you with a complete reference guide on Kanban to assist you on your journey towards success.
What will you learn with this book?
- What Is Kanban?
- Why Kanban?
- Kanban Principles and Practices
- Kanban Board
- Kanban Tools
- WIP Limits
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
- Lead Time
- Cycle Time
- Flow Efficiency
- Blockers Clustering
- Throughput or Velocity
- Scrum and Kanban
- Scrumban
- DevOps and Kanban
- Kaizen and Kanban
- Kanban Tools
- Kanban Examples
Grab your copy today. Learn how to effectively manage your personal and professional work with Lean Kanban.
This is Book #3 in the series titled 'The Basics Of Customer-First Product Management'.
Other books include:
The Basics Of Agile and Lean (Book #1)
The Basics Of SCRUM (Book #2)
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Aditi Agarwal
23 books18 followersAditi Agarwal is an experienced leader who leverages an outcome-driven approach to help teams innovate, embrace change, continuously improve, and deliver valuable experiences. She is an empathic, agile, and resilient leader with 22+ years of unparalleled excellence in driving strategic initiatives. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her loving family. Her mission is to share her knowledge and accelerate learning for others.
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April 10, 2019
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The Basics Of Kanban: A Popular Lean Framework by Aditi Agarwal is a short book full of exciting and useful information about how to use the methodology of Kanban.
The book successfully presents the Kanban methodology in an easy to understand language.
The examples in the book are helpful and in a straight forward way help us to understand the value and the importance of learning and adopting methods like the Kanban, Scrum, and Scrumban.
If you wish to increase your productivity in any and every area of your life, personal or professional, then this book will provide you with the building blocks of bettering your abilities and skills.
Highly recommend it
The Basics Of Kanban: A Popular Lean Framework by Aditi Agarwal is a short book full of exciting and useful information about how to use the methodology of Kanban.
The book successfully presents the Kanban methodology in an easy to understand language.
The examples in the book are helpful and in a straight forward way help us to understand the value and the importance of learning and adopting methods like the Kanban, Scrum, and Scrumban.
If you wish to increase your productivity in any and every area of your life, personal or professional, then this book will provide you with the building blocks of bettering your abilities and skills.
Highly recommend it
December 15, 2019
Great Read!
Wonderful step-by-step book! Great examples! Terrific read for any team leader! Clear and concise directions and explanations! I highly recommend this book!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wonderful step-by-step book! Great examples! Terrific read for any team leader! Clear and concise directions and explanations! I highly recommend this book!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 6, 2019
Just what I wanted to know about Kanban!
My job involves project management and I picked this book up hoping it might give me an idea or two for improving our processes. Exactly as described, the book is a nice bridge between a one-page overview and a 500 page textbook. I felt like I got exactly enough info to know whether Kanban might work for my purposes, and although I won’t be implementing it, I have another tool in my pocket for the future.
Strengths? The book is well organized and the author clearly has experience in laying out concepts in an accessible and academic style. The questions that popped into my head while reading were well anticipated and immediately addressed in almost all cases. The case studies at the end were also invaluable.
I particularly appreciated the bolded keywords, making it easy to follow the key points. The quotes from well-known business thinkers also really increased the interest for me.
Weaknesses? There were some minor hiccoughs with awkward sentences, and the author’s personal anecdotes were sometimes only loosely related. Nothing that took away from the effectiveness of the material. It also helps if you are at least somewhat familiar with LEAN, Agile, and just-in-time principles.
Overall, highly recommended reference if your job or hobby involves project management.
My job involves project management and I picked this book up hoping it might give me an idea or two for improving our processes. Exactly as described, the book is a nice bridge between a one-page overview and a 500 page textbook. I felt like I got exactly enough info to know whether Kanban might work for my purposes, and although I won’t be implementing it, I have another tool in my pocket for the future.
Strengths? The book is well organized and the author clearly has experience in laying out concepts in an accessible and academic style. The questions that popped into my head while reading were well anticipated and immediately addressed in almost all cases. The case studies at the end were also invaluable.
I particularly appreciated the bolded keywords, making it easy to follow the key points. The quotes from well-known business thinkers also really increased the interest for me.
Weaknesses? There were some minor hiccoughs with awkward sentences, and the author’s personal anecdotes were sometimes only loosely related. Nothing that took away from the effectiveness of the material. It also helps if you are at least somewhat familiar with LEAN, Agile, and just-in-time principles.
Overall, highly recommended reference if your job or hobby involves project management.
July 13, 2021
I was looking for a book that can tell me more about KanBan and its difference with SCRUM and I found this free-to-read book for Kindle Unlimited members so I downloaded it to give it a try.
Having known AGILE, LEAN and Kaizen, I naturally have many questions that I needed to find the answers to and soon as I open the book it was as though Aditi read my mind and provided the answers to all my questions in a well structured flow and with clarity. Her book encompasses the values of LEAN and AGILE in that there was no wastage of information, no repetition and everything was straight to the point.
I found it easy to read, easy to understand and more importantly concise. I spend no more than 2 hours to finish the entire book with all my questions answered.
A well deserved 5 stars.
Having known AGILE, LEAN and Kaizen, I naturally have many questions that I needed to find the answers to and soon as I open the book it was as though Aditi read my mind and provided the answers to all my questions in a well structured flow and with clarity. Her book encompasses the values of LEAN and AGILE in that there was no wastage of information, no repetition and everything was straight to the point.
I found it easy to read, easy to understand and more importantly concise. I spend no more than 2 hours to finish the entire book with all my questions answered.
A well deserved 5 stars.
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May 4, 2024Not rating this because I'm not the target audience and I mostly skimmed it for relevant bits. Kanban was mentioned in Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks so I thought I'd see if I could find a book specifically on it.
Honestly? Unless you're looking at it for corporate purposes (which I cannot help with because I loathe even the idea of a corporate job), just do a search for 'personal kanban board'. The books available are all business-focused and there's honestly not enough to the system to warrant a book about adapting it for personal use. Whatever blog post you find has a 99% chance of having all the information you need to create a personal kanban board. Read 3 and you'll get it all.
Honestly? Unless you're looking at it for corporate purposes (which I cannot help with because I loathe even the idea of a corporate job), just do a search for 'personal kanban board'. The books available are all business-focused and there's honestly not enough to the system to warrant a book about adapting it for personal use. Whatever blog post you find has a 99% chance of having all the information you need to create a personal kanban board. Read 3 and you'll get it all.
July 1, 2022
Agile and Kanban
Very useful book to introduce Agile teams to the usage of a Kanban board. As a Scrum Master I was exploring how to guide a Data & Analytics Team that shifted away from a Scrum Board and Sprints to a form of Kanban. One chapter discuses ScrumBan a combination of Scrum and Kanban practices. I found this a helpful exploration for my team. Lastly there are good examples of how to lay out the Kanban boards for different types of teams.
Very useful book to introduce Agile teams to the usage of a Kanban board. As a Scrum Master I was exploring how to guide a Data & Analytics Team that shifted away from a Scrum Board and Sprints to a form of Kanban. One chapter discuses ScrumBan a combination of Scrum and Kanban practices. I found this a helpful exploration for my team. Lastly there are good examples of how to lay out the Kanban boards for different types of teams.
November 16, 2020
Quick read - well worth the time
Excellent, brief overview. Many visuals. I read it in less than an hour. I’ve been using the Kanban approach myself, for writing, but am now tasked to explain it to others and so needed a more formal background. Text had many other resources listed for further study.
Excellent, brief overview. Many visuals. I read it in less than an hour. I’ve been using the Kanban approach myself, for writing, but am now tasked to explain it to others and so needed a more formal background. Text had many other resources listed for further study.
May 5, 2019
This handbook covers all of the aspects you would need to start working with Kanban in your organization. Even for experienced practitioners it is a nice and simple reminder of terminology, ceremonies, metrics, etc. It is written in such way that particular parts can be read in isolation thus allowing it to be used as an actual handbook. The potential lack of clarity and "how this actually works?" moments are tackled in the last part of the book with number of real life cases presented, which is a really nice addition. This book is easy to read, with no long and tangled parts that would cause confusion.
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