kanban
Card triggers replenishment
Kanban is a scheduling system for managing workflow, originally developed in Japanese manufacturing.
Work items are represented as cards that move across a board through columns like "to do," "in progress," and "done." The visual display makes bottlenecks obvious and limits work in progress: Our team switched to kanban to stop overcommitting.
The Japanese word means "signboard."
Contested pack restart
- sprintBrief maximum-speed effort
- backlogAccumulated unfinished work
- iterationRepeated procedural pass
- retrospectiveReviewing what came before
standup · velocity · timebox · incremental · cross-functional · self-organizing
Japanese car company
Upright structural shafts
- cardsStiff paper rectangles
- swimlanesParallel racing channels
- whiteboardErasable marker writing surface
- stickiesAdhesive paper slips
done · backlog · priority · blocker · queue · magnets · Trello · Jira
Unbroken forward movement
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- capacityMaximum amount containable
- expediteSpeed up a process
Mark conveying information
- noticeboardSurface for posting messages
- displayPresentation for viewing
- indicatorSign revealing status
scrum
Contested pack restart
retrospective · standup · velocity · timebox · incremental · cross-functional · self-organizing
Toyota
Japanese car company
columns
Upright structural shafts
- cardsStiff paper rectangles
- swimlanesParallel racing channels
- whiteboardErasable marker writing surface
stickies · done · backlog · priority · blocker · queue · magnets · Trello · Jira
flow
Unbroken forward movement
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- capacityMaximum amount containable
sign
Mark conveying information
- noticeboardSurface for posting messages
- displayPresentation for viewing
- indicatorSign revealing status
efficiency
Productive without waste
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
- efficiencyoptimization, efficient, streamlining, effective, optimize
- software developmentcoding, programming, bug, debug, debugging
- supply chainsupply, supplier, delivering, suppliers, vendor
- Japanese businessToyota, Honda, Sony, Nissan, Mitsubishi
- layoutsgrid, flexbox, tile layout, masonry, multi-column
kanbanMRP
Maker's price guideline
batch production · mass production · waterfall · centralized planning · assembly line