From the course: Stay Lean with Kanban
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Create a pull system
- Once you have your process set up on three by five cards, then it's time to start building your kanban wall. Your kanban wall is one of the most recognizable parts of the kanban system. In fact, many organizations think the wall is the whole kanban system. But the wall is just a signaling device. It gives the team a big picture view of what's going on in the process. What's most common is for the team to set up different columns for each step in the process. It's also very common for the team to split a column into two or more sub-processes. That's why it's important to create your value stream before you even start to build your wall. You want to start eliminating your waste and then grouping together your steps into different columns. Software development teams will typically use blue sticky tape to create five columns. These will be input, analysis, development, test, and release. They will also split analysis and development into two sub-processes. So they might make these…
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