Tag: Agile

Kanban | Glossary

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Definition
Kanban is a method for visualizing the flow of work, with an emphasis on continuous delivery, without overburdening the development team. Work items are visualized to give participants a view of progress and process, from start to finish.

Origin
Kanban , which literally means ‘signboard’ in Japanese, is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing and just-in-time manufacturing (JIT). Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed Kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency, in the 1940’s.

Further Reading

  • “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”, by David J. Anderson.
  • “Kanban from the inside”, by Mike Burrows.

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Just In Time | Glossary

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Definition
An approach in Lean wherein the assets, activities and essential information of a work stream becomes available, just as they are needed.

Origin
Its origin and development was in Japan, largely in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and particularly at Toyota. It was later adopted in Software development in the early 1990’s.

Further Reading

  • “Just-in-Time Manufacturing: An Introduction”, by S. Podolsky and T. C. Edwin Cheng.
  • “Just in Time”, by David Hutchins.

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