Kanban & Flow Management
Visualising work, limiting work in progress and managing flow with Kanban — boards, pull systems, WIP limits, flow metrics, bottlenecks, classes of service and improvement cadences. For anyone whose work arrives faster than it leaves.
54m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain why visualising work on a board with columns as workflow states makes problems visible
- Describe how work-in-progress limits improve flow, using Little's law qualitatively
- Distinguish pull systems from push systems and recognise each in practice
- Interpret the core flow metrics: lead time, cycle time and throughput
- Identify bottlenecks from board and metric signals and choose sound responses
- Apply classes of service and improvement cadences to run and evolve a Kanban system
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mMaking work visible: the Kanban boardKnowledge
- 2mPull, not pushKnowledge
- 7mAwareness check: boards and pullAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mWIP limits and Little's lawKnowledge
- 3mFlow metrics: lead time, cycle time, throughputKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge check: WIP, Little's law and flow metricsAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mBottlenecks and classes of serviceKnowledge
- 3mBuild and run a Kanban system on real workAssignment
- 8mSkill check: managing flow under pressureAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mImprovement cadences: evolving the system with dataKnowledge
- 3mLead a data-driven improvement of a flow systemAssignment
- 8mMastery assessment: stewarding flowAssessment
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