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Kanban Pizza Game
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Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Ok, here is the deal: You are the sponsor of a Pizza Bakery Shop! Mot
people to produce the highest value.
Germany License. Round 1 Let them bake Pizza Hawaii as fast as possible and see wha
Tell them that on the first day, all pizza is handed out for free and yo
lot of customers. Do not give further instructions for the set up.
Round 2 Introduce orders (and explain the impact on the score), intr
stations, introduce WIP limits
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Round 3 Introduce the „Pizza Speciale“—attention, Ruccola burns in
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Four Kanban Principles
1. Start with what you do (k)now—regardless of how ugly it is
2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change
3. Respect the current process —roles, responsibilities & titles
4. Leadership at all levels
r o ce s s! d:
n o t a p m e t h o
ba n is g e m e nt
Ka n e m a n a ce s s.
c h a n g o a p ro
It’s a u D O t
h in g y o
so m e t
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Round 1: Make as many slices as you can
Pizza Hawaii recipe
• Crust with outer edge folded upward
• Tomato sauce. Don’t skimp!
• 3 slices of ham cut from pink/orange stickies.
• 3 slices of pineapple cut from yellow stickies.
Rules & constraints
• All cutting must use scissors. One scissor per team.
• ONE crayon per team. May NOT break into multiple pieces.
• ONE oven per team holds a maximum of 2 slices at once.
• Must bake for 30 sec. Burned after 45 sec.
• High quality: lots of sauce with toppings firmly attached.
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Let’s play!
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Pizza base (with
or without sauce)
= -4 points
Toppings i ve
at ne
= -1 pt e g do
n
s 0%
t
n 10
u
co is
ce ce
Finished slice pie e sli
c h h
= +10 points Ea til t
un
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The Core of Kanban - 6 Practices
Visualize the Limit Work In
Manage the Flow
Workflow Progress (WIP)
Don’t let work pile up at any
step in the flow.
What steps does your work Lead time, cycle time,
go through? throughput.
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The Core of Kanban - 6 Practices
Implement Feedback Make Process Improve collaboratively,
Loops Policies Explicit improve experimentally
Make it easy for people to do the
right things, and to do them right
Are you regularly reviewing your Use metrics and models
work and processes? to continuously improve,
collaboratively
Hold standups and retrospectives
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Visualize your workflow
& limit your work in progress
Make your workflow explicit
Limit the WiP for each station
5 min time-box
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Like in the real world,
Let’s extend the game some things change!
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Now, we produce
based on orders
Cash on Delivery: Points are given
only for fully delivered orders
Orders can be picked up
from a central defined location
Finished orders must be delivered
to another central location
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Ok, let’s play again!
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Pizza base (with
or without sauce)
= -4 points
Toppings i ve
at ne
= -1 pt e g do
n
s 0%
t
n 10
u
co is
ce ce
Finished slice pie e sli
c h h
= +10 points Ea til t
un
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New! New!! New!!!
“Pizza Speciale”
Slim green post-its as rucola
(arugula)
Each slice has 7 of strips
Rucola burns in the oven:
Pieces must be added after
cooking.
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Ok, let’s play again!
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Pizza base (with
or without sauce)
= -4 points
Toppings i ve
at ne
= -1 pt e g do
n
s 0%
t
n 10
u
co is
ce ce
Finished slice pie e sli
c h h
= +10 points Ea til t
un
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Draw your workflow
Look back Draw the flow
to the game including WIP limits Use your materials
to make it look nice
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Kanban Pizza Rules—Game Master
Kanban Pizza Game by agile42 is licensed under
by agile42 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
Rounds
Ok, here is the deal: You are the sponsor of a Pizza Bakery Shop! Motivate
people to produce the highest value.
Round 1 Let them bake Pizza Hawaii as fast as possible and see what happens.
Further information: Tell them that on the first day, all pizza is handed out for free and you expect a
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lot of customers. Do not give further instructions for the set up.
Round 2 Introduce orders (and explain the impact on the score), introduce
info@agile42.com stations, introduce WIP limits
@ralfhh
Round 3 Introduce the „Pizza Speciale“—attention, Ruccola burns in the oven!
Round 4 Let them self-organize
Flow of the Game
- Explain them that you want to run a Pizza Shop. Read Preparations and follow
the instructions
- Ask them how many points they think that they will score, note that number.
- Tell them that the rounds will symbolize slices of the day and will not have a
fixed length
Ralf Kruse
- Do about 6 mins rounds but do not tell them how long it will be
- Count the score after each round
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