Here are the basic characteristics and features of Lean/Kanban:
- Planning style: Lean/Adaptive
- Delivery Style: Flow/Incremental
- Iteration length: Doesn't have time-boxed iterations
- Principles: Eliminate waste, amplify learning, decide as late as possible, deliver as fast as possible, empower the team, build integrity in, see the whole
- Roles: Not prescribed, existing roles
- Team size: Not prescribed
- Artefacts: Kanban (message board)
- Events: Andon (stop the line), Gemba (go and see)
- Special features: Kaizen (Continuous Improvement), makes work visible, limits work in progress, works with your existing process, makes policies explicit, evolves empirically
- Lacks: A clear process framework of its own; ...
