Kanban for maintenance @mobile.international
At OOP 2010 I was talking on our introduction of Kanban for the maintenance of the products of mobile.international. I will write a little more on my impression of Kanban in the furture.
For now, my main points on the introduction are: We really brought an not-so-agile- off-shore partner up to speed with this method (and increased his attention for our agile mindset). We reduced cycle time (pure development time) from 28 to 2 days and lead time (order to delivery) from 52 to 22 days in just three months.
What’s really impressing is the simple trick of visualizing your process and mapping the state of each work item, makes all the bodies of production knowledge available to the tinkering of your development process.
Further, being able to just document and tinker with your very own process offers a great opportunity for change if you just atsrt with your existing process as is and only fiddle around with some few screws where you want to improve your process.
As I said - I will write more on what we’ve done wih Kanban in the future.
Introduction of Kanban for large scale maintenance at mobile.international GmbH / OOP 2010
Happy and open for any question,
Markus
