FLOWCON 2022

Kanban doesn’t work for us because we don’t have items of the same size” - If I had a dollar for every time I heard this statement, I could afford to take my entire family on a month-long, all-inclusive, five-star tropical vacation. And I have a large family!

The concept of artificially splitting your work items into even pieces to leverage Kanban is one of the biggest misconceptions. This is the main reason why teams insert the adverse impact it causes.

“But Sonya, If we don’t slice our items into even pieces, how do we keep our commitments in Kanban?“. In this session, I’ll give you a straightforward answer to this question and we’ll explore the 5-step guideline for managing items of different sizes in Kanban. I’ll see you there!