{"id":5170,"date":"2018-05-15T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2018-05-15T05:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T00:22:57","slug":"kanban-system-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/kanban-system-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanban System | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The term \u00a0\u201cKanban\u201d is a Japanese word which means \u201csignal-card\u201d in English and it invented by Industrial engineer \u201cTaiichi Ohno\u201d in order to improve efficiency at Toyota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In manufacturing environment, this card signals upstream process to produce more. \u00a0The Kanban System used as a simple planning system, in which one can control and manage work and inventory at every stage of production optimally. Kanban is a concept identified with Lean and just-in-time (JIT), it is used in the planning which \u00a0clearly tells you<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what to produce?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when to produce it? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how much to produce?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a systematic way of approach, that will match inventory with demand and achieve higher levels of quality and throughput.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Application of this in knowledge work, especially in software engineering would enable a sustainable pace and find an approach to introduce changes with minimal resistance. \u00a0Kanban System helps to change the focus from a push to meet demand forecasts to a pull generated by actual demand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Future Reading:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Book: \u201cKANBAN A Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by David J Anderson <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leankit.com\/learn\/kanban\/what-is-kanban\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/leankit.com\/learn\/kanban\/what-is-kanban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaykanban.com\/what-is-kanban\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.everydaykanban.com\/what-is-kanban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tallyfy.com\/kanban-system\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/tallyfy.com\/kanban-system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: The term \u00a0\u201cKanban\u201d is a Japanese word which means \u201csignal-card\u201d in English and it invented by Industrial engineer \u201cTaiichi Ohno\u201d in order to improve efficiency at Toyota. In manufacturing environment, this card signals upstream process to produce more. \u00a0The Kanban System used as a simple planning system, in which one can control and manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[17,3,830,116,2,29,293,362,59,58,263],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-agile","tag-kanban","tag-kanban-system","tag-leadership","tag-lean","tag-management","tag-product","tag-project","tag-safe","tag-scrum","tag-scrumban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kanban-system.png?fit=3125%2C1709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-1lo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}