How to Adopt Kanban

Adopting Kanban does not require a massive change programme. Its effects however can be more far-reaching and long lasting than any expert-led transformation. How then do you adopt Kanban?

Here's my shortest-so-far adoption guide:

1. Change your viewpoint (lean flow paradigm):
   See work as flow
2. Change your mindset (foundational principles):
   Start from here and improve
3. Change your process continually (core practices):
   Make work and policies visible; make validated improvements

Sound simple? Maybe, but it's the starting point for a journey with no final destination - no process-nirvana of global optima. Improvement, like change, is here to stay.

Note: for tweeting purposes here's the even shorter version: see flow; start here; with visible work & policies, validate improvements.

See also: "What is Scrumban?"