Manage Kanban Workflow

Kanban experts and Kanban project managers are in charge of the active management of their Kanban workflow.

It's essential to be able to limit the number of Kanban cards located at specific steps of Kanban workflow. Yet, that’s not enough to enable the flow.

Definition: Management of Kanban Workflow

All tasks performed to enable or improve the Kanban workflow can be defined as activities to manage Kanban workflows.

Some of these activities are:

• Kanban cards are pulled to a step of a workflow at the same rate as they're completed and leave. • Kanban cards are never left to gain high work item ages without being processed by the

Kanban team. • Kanban team shifts priorities to handle several queed of blocked Kanban cards proactively. • Kanban team take it seriously to meet their service level expectations (SLE), and they feel comfortable to give Just-In-Time (JIT) decisions while they do the work to proactively manage their workflow. • Kanban team tracks their metrics, makes them transparent to their upstream, and downstream work centers as well. In this way, valuable feedback can be collected from surrounding teams whose workflows are interrelated to the workflow of the Kanban team. • Work In Progress (WIP) Limits can be experimented and adjusted as well with consensus among Kanban experts and Kanban project managers. And yet, adjusting WIP cannot be imposed by higher-level management or leadership.