The Basics of Kanban

A Popular Lean Framework

By: Aditi Agarwal

Narrated by: Douglas Birk

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you feel overwhelmed with multiple things that need your attention? Do you feel like you’re always switching from one task to another, struggling to focus on any one thing for long enough to make progress? Do you feel that you work all day, but can’t get anything to complete? Do you feel that you are not as productive as you would like to be?

Does your team have enough visibility on work items that each member is working on? Does your team struggle to track external team dependencies? Does your team stay focused and motivated? Does your team meet its commitments?

Kanban is a popular lean framework and a workflow visualization approach to managing any professional or personal work in an effective and efficient manner. This audiobook is to provide you with a complete reference guide on Kanban to assist you on your journey towards success.

What will you learn with this audiobook?

• What Is Kanban?
• Why Kanban?
• Kanban principles and practices
• Kanban board
• WIP limits
• Cumulative flow diagram
• Lead time
• Cycle time
• Flow efficiency
• Blockers clustering
• Throughput or velocity
• Scrum vs. Kanban
• Scrumban
• DevOps and Kanban
• Kaizen and Kanban
• Kanban tools
• Practical examples
• Sample Kanban boards

Who should listen to this audiobook?

Since Kanban can be applied at both work and your personal life, anyone can listen to this audiobook.

Here are a few roles and scenarios that will most likely benefit from this audiobook:

• Project managers
• Business analysts
• Scrum masters
• Product managers
• Product owners
• Engineers
• Test managers
• Business managers
• Technology leaders
• Subject matter experts
• System administrators
• Operations or support teams
• Sales and marketing teams
• Students seeking an IT job
• A product development team with regular intake requests
• Anyone who is looking to manage their personal or professional work
• Anyone who is looking to adopt Kanban
• Anyone who needs to understand when and when not to use Kanban
• Anyone who wants to understand the differences between Kanban and Scrum
• Anyone who needs to learn Kanban to expand one’s career opportunities
• Anyone who needs a simple and concise reference book on Kanban

Grab your copy today. Learn how to effectively manage your personal and professional work with Kanban.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Aditi Agarwal (P)2019 Aditi Agarwal

A great and well explained introduction to Kanban

Working in AGILE environment is a must nowadays, The choice between the different methodologies is well explained here, kanban is providing more flexibility and easy to use, The author has given the full details of this method and the very deep explanation to use it, It's a great book i highly recommend it for my colleagues and team members,

Kanban in a nutshell

The Basics Of Kanban by Aditi Agarwal is a short, but comprehensive book that explains Kanban in a simple to understand way. The accompanying PDF guide shows examples of different Kanban boards and helps to visually explain the concepts in the book.
I listened to the audiobook and it gave me an excellent overview of what Kanban is and how it can be used. The book is just over 2 hours and was ideal for learning during my work commute.

What I really enjoyed about Aditi’s book is the way she places Kanban in context with other concepts such as Agile, Scrum and Lean. She also refers to additional resources on the topics for those who want to learn more.
I look forward to reading Aditi’s other books on Scrum, Agile and Product Management. This book is a real gem and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the basics of Kanban.

I learned a much about Kanban

Good read! Provides details on Kanban specific. And connection to Kanban. Learned a bunch.

Struggling to deliver meaningful work?

Whether you've heard of Kanban or not, whether you're working in a team or alone; this audiobook presents a treasure trove of insight into how individuals stay productive through proven processes and tools - digital and analogue. I have personally been in situations where no matter how much effort was placed into the task, scope expanded seemingly infinitely, often due to improper planning. After dedicating 2 hours of my time to The Basics of Kanban, I was genuinely amazed by the dense, yet practical, examples of Kanban in a nutshell. If you or someone you work with hasn't transitioned to an agile workflow yet, I recommend this guide as it assumes nothing and breaks it down the Kanban way. I personally enjoyed that each chapter is easily replicable in real-life projects, and loved how each component of this methodology was clearly explained. Additionally: This audiobook comes with a 30-page PDF Document to support the spoken text with visual examples, charts, and comparisons.

Provides great insights into Kanban

I am at a crossroads with one of the teams I work with. Due to the way we receive our work and the nature of the work vanilla scrum agile is not really working out. This situation caused me to look at other flavors of agile. This book gave me a clear view into why we were having challenges with scrum as we were using it and why Kanban or scrum ban may work better. Examples and comparisons of each methodology were very helpful. Book wording was clear and easy to follow. Narration and tone were easy on the ear. I was wondering if a "work" audio book could hold my interest like a fiction book does and I had no challenge staying interested in this one. I highly recommend to anyone investigating which flavor of agile they want to use.