Real-World Kanban, Second Edition: Do Less, Accomplish More with Lean Thinking - Paperback

by Mattias Skarin (Author)

When your team is stressed, priorities are unclear, and nobody knows what anyone else is doing, morale and productivity plummet. But it's never too late to improve team cohesion, boost engagement, and save your derailed projects. Dive into five real-world Kanban case studies and discover how teams like yours created a shared focus, improved time to market, and turned things around. With illustrations of the Kanban boards, diagrams, and graphs that led to success, you'll get a look behind the scenes. This updated edition even includes a diverse library of Kanban board examples to jump-start your journey.

When teams and projects go off the rails, it can be tough to get everyone and everything back on track quickly. But it's never too late. Leverage insights and expertise from five real-world Kanban case studies to decrease time to market, improve engagement, and save your people and projects.

Discover how software development teams just like yours went from overwork, unclear priorities, and lack of direction to productivity, focus, and cohesion. Uncover paradigm-changing improvements that made all the difference, and use battle-tested expertise and experience as a roadmap for your own success. Along the way, you'll improve the full value chain with Enterprise Kanban; boost engagement, teamwork, and flow in change management and operations; help external teams keep pace with rapid growth; manage the shift from individual contributors to a well-functioning team; and improve cohesion in remote-first work.

Thoroughly revised and expanded with new chapters on using Kanban in capital markets and improving remote work with Kanban, this updated edition also includes a diverse library of Kanban board examples to help you get turned around and heading in the right direction fast.

What You Need:

This is a case studies book, so there are no software requirements. The book covers the relevant bits of theory you need to know before walking you through the case studies.