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The Kanban System

Explore the fundamentals of a Kanban system including its commitment and delivery points, visual signals, and key metrics such as lead time, work-in-progress, and throughput. Understand core Kanban practices like visualizing work, limiting WIP, managing flow, and using feedback loops to continuously improve and design efficient Kanban workflows.

A Kanban system is a production system operated with Kanban as a means to implement pull.

Kanban systems are delimited by a commitment point and a delivery point as well as by visual signals that limit work in progress.

The commitment is an explicit agreement between a customer and team that:

  • the customer wants an
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