Kanban Pizza Game
Experience Kanban for yourself
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Three Foundational Kanban Principles
• Start with what you do (k)now—regardless of how ugly it is
Respect the current process —roles, responsibilities & titles
• Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change
• Encourage acts of leadership at any levels Kanba n i s n o t a
process!
a c h a n g e
It’s
a n a g e m e n t
m
method:
g y o u D O
somethin
p r oc e s s .
to a
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Kanban starts where you are
... normally with an existing process
Produce as
many
slices as yo i t er a t i o n s
u can No fixed to stop
p lay u n t il a s k ed
& we
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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 stickies.
• 3 slices of pineapple cut from yellow stickies.
Rules & constraints
• All cutting must be done with scissors - one per team.
• One red marker per team.
• One oven per team - holds a maximum of 3 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
Finished slice
= +10 points
Pizza base
(with or
without sauce)
= -4 points E a c h p i ec e
counts
negative
t i l t h e s l i c e
Toppings un
1 0 0 % d o n e
= -1 pt is
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Six Core Kanban Practices
Visualize the workflow Limit work in progress Manage the flow
Implement Make process Improve collaboratively,
feedback loops policies explicit evolve experimentally
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The Core of Kanban - 6 Practices
Visualize the Limit work in Manage
workflow progress the flow
Don’t let work
pile up at any
step in the
flow.
Lead time,
What steps
cycle time,
does your
throughput.
work go
through?
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The Core of Kanban - 6 Practices
Implement Make process Improve
feedback loops policies explicit collaboratively, evolve
experimentally
Make it easy for
people to do the
right things, and
to do them right
Are you regularly
reviewing your
work and Use metrics and
processes? models to
continuously
Hold standups and
improve,
retrospectives
collaboratively
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Visualize your workflow
& limit your work in progress
w e x p l i c i t
u r w o r k f lo
Ma k e y o s t a t i on
P f o r e a c h
t h e W I
Limit
t i m e -b ox
5 min
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OK, let’s play again!
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Finished slice
= +10 points
Pizza base
(with or
without sauce)
= -4 points c e
E a c h p i e
counts
negative
i l t h e s l i c e
Toppings unt
0 0 % d o n e
= -1 pt is 1
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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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Let’s extend Like in the real world,
the game some things change!
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2017.
New! New!! New!!!
“Pizza Speciale”
Slim green stickies as rucola
Each slice has 7 strips
Rucola burns in the oven: Pieces must be added
after baking.
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OK, let’s play again!
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Finished slice
= +10 points
Pizza base
(with or
without sauce)
= -4 points E a c h p i e c e
counts
negative
t i l t h e s l i c e
Toppings un
1 0 0 % d o n e
= -1 pt is
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Six Core Kanban Practices
Visualize the workflow Limit work in progress Manage the flow
Implement Make process Improve collaboratively,
feedback loops policies explicit evolve experimentally
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Draw your workflow
Look back Draw the flow Use your materials
to the game including WIP limits to make it look nice
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Prerequisites of Kanban as a working system
Kaizen
Board Pull
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Kanban Pizza Game
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International License
An intellectual property of agile42 International GmbH
Further information:
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