A Brief History of Kanban for Knowledge Work. Posted on July 2. David Anderson. Success has many fathers Recently, there has been some content published elsewhere on the web that seeks to re write the history of the adaptation of kanban systems into the field of creative knowledge work. The individuals publishing these alternative versions of history are generally doing it for self serving reasons or in some cases as deliberate misinformation to try and undermine my business. To put the record straight, Ive compiled this definitive history. Dragos Dumitriu, manager XIT Sustaining Engineering at Microsoft, asks me to help him. Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Manufacturing Media is a leading source for news and indepth technical information about advanced manufacturing in North America. 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Donald Reinertsen after watching me present my flow and FDD material at a conference in Chicago, follows me home to Seattle and visits me in the cafe of Building 2. Microsoft campus. Success has many fathers Recently, there has been some content published elsewhere on the web that seeks to rewrite the history of the adaptation of kanban systems. Lean software development LSD is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production. He persuades me to try kanban systems. I decide to revisit the XIT implementation as a kanban system and discover that little would change other than perhaps the WIP limits would be slightly different. I find kanban systems easier to explain to people than DBR and Dragos and I start referring to the XIT implementation as a virtual kanban system. I present it this way at another conference in Chicago the following year. The XIT Sustaining Engineering study is presented at TOCICO in Barcelona and published as a white paper by Microsoft. I present the completed XIT story as a virtual kanban system implementation at the same Chicago conference, Don Reinertsen and I had presented the previous year. This is the first public presentation of kanban systems used in a knowledge work setting. At this point only Dragos Dumitriu and I had been involved. Some people read and implement copies of the Microsoft XIT solution. The most notable of these was Eric Landes at Robert Bosch who copies it almost exactly for use with an intranet website maintenance team. September 2. 00. 6. I arrive at Corbis as the Senior Director for Software Engineering. The software maintenance process is badly broken and I work with Rick Garber, the manager of the process improvement team, to design a kanban system to replace the existing projec centric approach to minor application upgrades. We socialize the design with stakeholders including Drew Mc. Lean, a VP at Corbis, who suggests the Expedite capability, adding the first alternative class of service to a kanban system for knowledge work. Darren Davis is the development manager for maintenance and Diana Kolomiyets is the project manager. They take control of the kanban implementation in November 2. Darren takes charge of standup meetings and Diana runs the replenishment meetings every week and plans and coordinates the releases every two weeks. We institute operations review IT department wide at Corbis. Results from the first kanban system implementation are presented by Darren Davis during the review. Darren Davis suggests that after a series of successful releases from the maintenance process improvements seem to be stagnating and there appears to be so much variation in flow that no one can understand what to do next. He suggests that we should visualize the workflow using a card wall implemented on a white board across the hallway from his cubicle. The idea came from one of his team members. So a board goes up on  the wall. Through January to March the board on the wall helps with further improvements. Capacity is set aside for internal demand. A WIP limit of 2 is established for green tickets. I notice a trending pattern for urgent work with externally fixed dates such as March 3. I suggest we offer this fixed date concept as a class of service. What we now recognize as the Kanban Method with its six practices and risks visualized and addressed using capacity allocation and classes of service emerges by end of winter 2. I approached Corey Ladas whom I had known as part of the Engineering Excellence group at Microsoft and I persuade him to join Corbis as the process coach for Kanban. Corey is excited by what we are doing and joins enthusiastic to help us scale it across the organization. I meet with the incoming CEO of Corbis who asks why if the maintenance process is working so well, we arent using the same process across all of IT. I agree with him and we start roll out Kanban across the project portfolio. Our Digital Asset Management DAM project which had already adopted Scrum, adopts Kanban under Coreys guidance. The first two tiered kanban board with swim lanes emerges. We start planning a 1. ERP project. Dan Vacanti arrives as the development manager for the ERP project. Dan and I have history together since 2. Dan has until this point not worked with Kanban. He works together with me and Corey Ladas to design the process for the project. We roll the staff off the DAM project onto the ERP project and the two tiered kanban board innovation comes with them. Rick Garber and I present the full Corbis Kanban implementation at a Donald Reinertsen Lean New Product Development conference in Chicago at the Hyatt Mc. Cormick Place. There are only 5. Mary Poppendieck. This is the first presentation of what we now know as the Kanban Method complete with classes of service, lead time histogram metrics, operations review, after meeting kaizen events and so forth. Having failed to get on the regular program for Agile 2. Washington DC, I make use of the projector in the Cwa. C Conference within a Conference open space to give the same presentation Rick Garber and I gave in Chicago. There are 2. 5 people in the audience including Karl Scotland, Olav Maassen, Arlo Belshee, Kenji Hiranabe and others. The following day Karl Scotland, Joe Arnold and Aaron Sanders all from YahooThey explain they have to implement Scrum at Yahoo They want to try Kanban with those groups. They ask that we setup a Yahoo The kanbandev group on Yahoo Jim Benson, Corey Ladas and I form Modus Cooperandi, a management consulting firm intent on developing a practice around evolutionary change and improved service delivery agility. We adopt the slogan performance through collaboration which is mildly influenced by Audis Vorsprung durch Tecknik. We engage a former Microsoft colleague of mine, Kim Tapia St. Amant to design the roundel logo featuring the hand shake of collaboration. Corey Ladas presents more detailed Kanban implementation scenarios at the Agile 2. One half of the presentation focuses on Kanban applied to teams and projects using Scrum. This is the foundation of what became known as Scrumban. September 2. 00. 8. I start David J. Anderson amp Associates leaving Jim and Corey to continue with Modus Cooperandi. Dan Vacanti joins me soon afterward as my first associate. Modus Cooperandi Press publishes Corey Ladas book, Scrumban based mostly around a series of blog posts hed written on the topic of evolving from Scrum using Kanban. The first Lean Kanban conference is held in Miami.