In his book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change For Your Technology Business, David Anderson comes up with a a so-called recipe for success.
Basically, it is an ordered list of key steps for the starting technical function manager to follow in order to create positive change and make progress quickly in a volatile and chaotic environment.
The recipe for success looks like this:
- Focus on quality
- Reduce work-in-progress
- Deliver often
- Balance demand against throughput
- Prioritize
- Attack sources of variability to improve predictability
