Pecha Kucha Kanban System

1. Kanban is often defined as one of the major lean methods used in managing the project for reducing the idle time. The Agile Methodology helps in delivering the process at the exact time when required. Kanban takes advantage of three major principles. The First principle includes the visualization if the work flow. This allows in visualizing all the components and provides detailed information about all the processes. The second principle includes in reducing the work required for the ongoing tasks in the project. Finally, the last principle includes the enhancement of the tasks. The process of Kanban encourages continuous collaboration and promotes continuous improvement, learning and workflow

2. The kanban system utilizes various signals for balancing the flow of people, materials and work within a project. In organizations, the Kanban process is utilized in various processes including construction, service employment, manufacturing and software development. Application of Kanban provides several advantages that allows the organizations to deploy anban within their projects. The following are the detailed reason for various organizations to choose Kanban:

Minimizes risks of overproduction

Eliminated the confusion of employees

 Enhances customer satisfaction

Provides balance planning

Simplification of production plan

Work on demand

Steady work flow

Reduced work in progress

Provides work visualization

3. Kanban for managing task

Task: Allocate Daniel to make Xerox copies for assignments.

Step 1: An kanban card has been placed on Daniel’s lane indicating the Xerox needs to be done with all the details including number of Xerox and time when required;

Step 2: The Kanban system would alert Daniel about new task being assigned to him;

Step 3: Daniel sees the card and start working with the task while placing the card in “doing” lane;

Step 4: This shows everyone that Daniel is doing the task currently;

Step 5: Daniel goes to the Xerox counter and does the photocopies and completed the task;'

Step 6: Daniel put the card from “doing” to “done” lane;

Step 7: Now everyone knows the task allocated to Daniel has been completed, all the other member can collect their copies;

Task: Manage the team members while allocating the task

 Step 1: Create a Kanban Board for the team members with three lanes including “to do”, “doing” and “done”;

Step 2: Add one more row indicating the name of the team members;

Step 3: Kanban tasks are created with detailed information in the Kanban card and put them in the board;

Step 4: The task in the “to do” lane indicates that the team members are being allocated with the tasks;

Step 5: Set up meetings to discuss the tasks;

Step 6: This enables the team members to identify the works being done and what tasks are being allocated to which team members;

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