Kanban from the Inside

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).

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.

"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 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.

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.