Friday, March 12, 2010
Why do we use Kanban?
During my week in Argentina, I’ve been thinking hard about the correct motivations for adopting the Kanban Approach to change management and organizational culture. I’ve been asking myself hard questions about my own original motivations and why someone coming to it now would want to adopt the approach. I’ve concluded that I (and people I advise and coach) use Kanban for three main
reasons.
(1) Evolutionary, incremental change with minimal resistance
(2) Achieve sustainable pace by balance throughput against demand
(3) Quantitative Management and emergence of high maturity behavior in alignment
with senior management desire to have a highly predictable business
(4) Better risk management (the emerging theme in the Kanban community)
