agile42 Kanban Pizza Game

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Kanban Pizza Game
Experience Kanban for yourself
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Kanban Pizza Rules—Game Master
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 happ
Tell them that on the ﬁrst day, all pizza is handed out for free and you exp
lot of customers. Do not give further instructions for the set up.
Round 2 Introduce orders (and explain the impact on the score), introduce
stations, introduce WIP limits
Round 3 Introduce the „Pizza Speciale“—attention, Ruccola burns in the ov
Round 4 Let them self-organize
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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
Kanban is not a process!
It’s a change management method,
i.e. something you DO to a process.
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Kanban starts where you are
... normally with an existing process
Try to produce
as many as you can
& avoid wasted materials
No ﬁxed iterations
& we play till I clap my hands
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Let’s play!
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The Core of Kanban - 6 Practices
Visualize the
workflow
Limit work in
process (WIP)
Measure & optimize
flow
Make process
policies explicit
Implement
feedback loops Improve collaboratively,
improve experimentallycreative commons
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Lead time, cycle time,
throughput
We’ll use a point system
that rewards finished products
and punishes unfinished
Do you have a workflow?
Make a station for each step
Where was work piling up?
Select a WIP limit for each step
Visualize the
Workflow
Limit Work In
Progress (WIP)
Manage the Flow
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Use metrics and models
to continuously improve,
collaboratively
Are you regularly reviewing your
work and processes?
Hold standups and retrospectives
Make it easy for people to do the
right things, and to do them right
Implement Feedback
Loops
Make Process
Policies Explicit
Improve collaboratively,
improve experimentally
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Stop!!! - Let’s measure
Finished slice
= +10 points
Toppings
= -1 pt/each
Pizza base (with
or without sauce)
= -4 points
Each
piece
counts negative
until the
slice
is 100%
done
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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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Ok, let’s play again!
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Let’s extend the game Like in the real world,
some things change!
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New! New!! New!!!
“Pizza Speciale”
Slim green post-its as rucola
(rocket salad)
Each piece has 7 of them
Rucola burns in the oven
(Pieces have to be put on after baking)
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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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Draw your workﬂow
Look back
to the game
Draw the ﬂow
including WIP limits
Use your materials
to make it look nice
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There is much more to know about Kanban & Lean...
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Kanban Pizza Game
by agile42 is licensed under
Further information:
www.agile42.com/training/kanban-pizza-game
info@agile42.com
Kanban Pizza Game by agile42 is licensed under
Kanban Pizza Rules—Game Master
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.
Tell them that on the ﬁrst day, all pizza is handed out for free and you expect a
lot of customers. Do not give further instructions for the set up.
Round 2 Introduce orders (and explain the impact on the score), introduce
stations, introduce WIP limits
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
- Do about 6 mins rounds but do not tell them how long it will be
- Count the score after each round
- Do a 2 min retrospective after each round. 1 min to focus on what impeded
them most and another 1 min to discuss how to improve that or get around
it.
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Photos by
agile42:
Ralf Kruse
Martin von Weissenberg
Agile Finland:
Tampere Goes Agile 2011
Flickr:
wheels3217
quinnanya
el_floz
TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋)
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