Kanban Resources

Below are some sites that may help you dive deeper into the world of Kanban. If they weren’t written by me, I have identified the author next to the link. If you feel that any sites are attributed incorrectly, please contact me.

Downloads from EverydayKanban & 55 Degrees

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Metrics

• General Metrics Information
  • Getting started with Collecting Kanban Process Metrics (by Hakan Forss)
  • 7 Lean Metrics to Improve Flow (Lean Kit Blog)
• Lead Time / Cycle Time
  • Coming soon…
• Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs)
  • Cumulative Flow Diagrams explained (by Pawel Brodzinski)
  • Creating CFD’s in Excel (by Hakan Forss)
• Flow Efficiency
  • Flow Efficiency: A great metric you probably aren’t using
• Control Charts
  • Creating Control Charts in Excel (by Hakan Forss)

Games and exercises

• Lego Flow Game by Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg and Karl Scotland
• Featureban by Mike Burrows
• GetKanban Board Game by Russell Healy
• Online GetKanban Game by Dan Vacanti
• Team Flow by Okaloa Flowlab
• Kanban Simulation by Julia Wester (@everydaykanban)

Groups and organizations

• Limited WIP Society
• Lean Coffee
• Lean Enterprise Institute
• Lean Systems Society
• The Shingo Institute

General resources

• Liberating Structures
• Kaizen Training and Research – Creative Safety Supply
• Kanban Learning Center – LeanKit
• Kanban Library – KanbanTool
• Kanban presentation assets – Infodiagram
• Visual Book Notes – GitLit
• My reading list

Blog Roll & other methods of digitally stalking people…

• Who I follow on Twitter
• Dominica Degrandis’s Blog
• Crisp.se
• Personal Kanban by Jim Benson
• The Practical Agile Blog by Dan Tousignant
• The Lean Post (Lean Enterprise Institute Blog)
• Hakan Forss’s Blog