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What is Kanban?

Kanban is a methodology originally developed by Toyota to be more efficient.

There is only two constraints imposed by Kanban:

• Visualize your workflow
• Limit your work in progress

Visualize your workflow

• Your work is displayed on a board, you have a clear overview of your project
• Each column represent a step in your workflow

Bring focus and avoid multitasking

• Each phase can have a work in progress limit
• Limits are great to identify bottlenecks
• Limits avoid working on too many tasks in the same time

Measure performance and improvement

Kanban uses lead and cycle times to measure performance:

• Lead time: Time between the task is created and completed
• Cycle time: Time between the task is started and completed

By example, you may have a lead time of 100 days and only have to work 1 hour to complete the task.