Kanban Principles and Practices Flashcards
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A blocked item sits idle waiting on an external vendor. The best Kanban response is to:
Answer: Mark it blocked, make the impediment visible, and track it
Visualizing and tracking blockers exposes impediments so they can be actively managed and resolved.
Which statement best distinguishes Kanban from Scrum?
Answer: Kanban is a continuous flow system with no required iterations
Kanban manages continuous flow and does not prescribe fixed-length sprints like Scrum does.
A team repeatedly exceeds its WIP limit 'just this once.' What is the likely consequence?
Answer: Increased multitasking and longer lead times
Routinely breaching WIP limits reintroduces multitasking and overload, lengthening lead and cycle times.
The Kanban practice 'improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally' encourages teams to:
Answer: Use models and the scientific method to test improvements
This practice promotes hypothesis-driven, experimental change validated with metrics and feedback.
In a Kanban context, 'flow efficiency' is the ratio of:
Answer: Active work time to total lead time
Flow efficiency compares time spent actively working on an item to its total lead time, revealing wait waste.
A team finds most of an item's lead time is spent waiting, not working. To improve flow efficiency they should first:
Answer: Reduce wait states and handoff delays
Cutting wait time and handoff delays directly raises flow efficiency more than working faster.
What role does feedback cadence (regular reviews) play in Kanban?
Answer: It establishes loops to inspect and adapt the system
Feedback cadences create regular inspect-and-adapt loops that sustain continuous improvement.