Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method, connect it to what you already know, introduce it with impact

With Kanban from the Inside, Mike Burrows has done a tremendous service for the product development community across multiple disciplines.For all of its power and popularity, David Anderson's 'Kanban' blue book is built around case studies. It's great for explaining why kanban works. But not everyone can easily synthesize from it how they can get started applying this approach.By contrast, Mike's book begins with a simple and easily accessible guide for implementing the basics of a kanban system. It then builds on that to explain how kanban relates to the best of modern management thinking like Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints, and Systems Thinking.It provides useful summaries of each, as well as recommended reading for deeper understanding. This should be extremely helpful for those who might otherwise see all these ideas as mutually exclusive - and confusing.This is a great addition to the modern management literary canon. Well worth your time.

This could be very well qualified as the book that shows the current state of Kanban for knowledge work. David Anderson's book on Kanban is the de-facto book to get introduced with Kanban and Mike's is the perfect complement for those who already read David's book. For those entirely new to Kanban it may be better to read Mike's book and then consult David's book.Mike adds what the Kanban community calls the human side and it is a very important complement to understanding what Kanban ultimately does to organizations.I read this book a while back... should've written this short review earlier.

This book does a good job of summarizing the ideas and building blocks of kanban systems. I especially liked that the Author took us through his thought process for introducing and implementing kanban without turning it into a one-size-fits-all recipe. This makes it a useful book for both those starting out fresh and for Kanban veterans trying to take their organizations to the next level.

‘Inside Kanban’ is a very insightful book for everyone interested in the Kanban Method. Beginners can easily understand true, practical meaning and goals behind method’s principles and practices. The book is full of author’s first-hand examples of how to take your team (or organization) along the evolutionary path towards 'the true north’ of Kanban. More experienced readers will surely benefit from a new perspective on Kanban principles and practices re-shuffled with nine values. Part II takes you deeper into Lean, System Thinking, ToC, so you will end up hungry for more, chasing for recommended titles.

Wonderful introduction to Kanban, linking values to principles and practices, focusing on outcomes and, at least to me, making it clear the importance of tracking change experiments to the system or service alongside the delivery of the work items.

If you only have time to read one book about Kanban, make it this one. If you've been trying to use Kanban in your organization and you've been struggling with it, this book could clarify it for you.

Good job showing what the background is for Kanban and recommendations on how to implement into environment. It is more than just doing a board.

Incredible book. I've done Kanban implementations for many years. This is the best book on implementing Kanban I've yet read, including the seminal work by David Anderson.

An essential book for anyone intending on using Kanban. Whilst David J. Anderson's "Blue Book" teaches the theory of the Kanban Method, this shows us how to apply it in real life.Split into three parts, the book starts by aligning 9 values (such as transparency, collaboration, leadership) to the method, to illustrate why you should be interested in Kanban. Part 2 summarises various influential methods such as the Theory of Constraints, Toyota Production System, lean, agile, Scrum. Although you feel you've had just enough to understand each one, he makes you want to go and find out more. Finally, in part 3, Burrows brings it all together to explain how to implement Kanban. He has a wealth of practical knowledge to draw on, and you feel the full force in this final part: step-by-step guidance along with key questions to ask yourself about your own situation (however hard they might be).

This book has a clear framework for describing the Kanban method, and uses it to distill an awful lot of knowledge into a coherent and usable form.As with the best tech books, I:- learned a number of new practices that make enormous sense- learned much snappier names for practices I already follow- felt suitably chastised by realising practices I'd skipped in the past as being superfluous were actually pretty key!- underlined lots of phrases that chimed with my experiencesDef a book I will refer back to over time.

"Kanban from the inside" is the best Kanban "from scratch" book around at the moment. Without assuming any previous knowledge it takes the reader through all the Kanban concepts like values, principles, practices, up to the STATIK model to help people introduce Kanban in their environment.The book is very clear and everything is explained in simple term (no use of fancy words for the sake of it, I love this!). It's also packed with real life examples that help understanding it even more.I recommend it both to people new to Kanban who want to know more, and to expert people who might benefit from going through the basics all over again (the STATIK model in particular is probably a gem for them)

This is, hands down, the most useful and informative book I have read about.... well, anything. Not only could you pretty much learn about Kanban from top-to-bottom, it is absolutely rammed with examples and practical advice that I am looking forward to trying out in the wild. I enjoyed the references to and explanations of techniques that can be applied to your Kanban system, such as ToC and the PDCA cycle.I have already attempted to introduce Kanban through its values and it has worked like a charm where previously I was getting a lot of rolled eyes at "yet another process", thanks Mike!I highly recommend reading this cover-to-cover for anybody aspiring to implement Kanban in their teams or organisations.In reference to Car Vojislav's review. The author quite clearly attributes the methods he describes to their original creators, including providing a comprehensive bibliography to their works at the end of the book. He at no point makes any claims that methods such as ToC were built as part of the Kanban method, nor does he attempt to claim credit for those ideas himself.

I was a little apprehensive about reading another book on Lean/Agile as I was worried that I have "read it all before". I needn't have worried because this book approaches things from a different angle, and ties together a whole bunch of ideas into a coherent whole.