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Kanban in the Time of Corona

23 March 2020 by Robert Falkowitz

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I went to the supermarket yesterday and was delighted to see a standard kanban practice was implemented there. Attempting to limit the density of the shoppers in the store, you had to wait at the entry for a card—in fact, a kanban card—before entering. At the exit, you returned the card, enabling another entry to […]

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: kanban card, queue management, WIP limit

When is a kanban tool not a kanban tool?

7 February 2018 by Robert Falkowitz

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An indicator of the increasing popularity of kanban is the number of software tools and online services that claim kanban functionality. For those practitioners who have seen the tremendous benefits of kanban, this should be a gratifying development. But what does it really mean for a tool to support or to enable kanban? And what […]

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