Discovery Kanban Helps You Manage Risks and Options In Your Product Roadmap

Patrick Steyaert (@PatrickSteyaert) of Okaloa developed the Discovery Kanban model to manage risks and options in a product roadmap.

Discovery Kanban Manages Product Roadmap Risks and Options

Slides from 2013 are no longer available, here are presentations from 2014 and 2015

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It’s a complex and challenging presentation that connects a number of different concepts–including fitness landscape models, the Cynefin framework  and its concept of probes, the OODA loop, optionality–into a coherent synthesis: Kanban models can be used not only for managing execution or delivery flow by minimizing the amount of work in progress, but also for managing the discovery process of curating a portfolio of risks and options.

At a high level an execution focus yields a prioritized network of interdependent tasks; exploration yields a portfolio of risks and options.

I had the good fortune to meet Arlette Vercammen of Okaloa at the Lean Startup Conference 2013 and we had a conversation that sparked some additional conversations around evolving their discovery model for startups and change agents in larger firms.

Patrick will be providing an updated version of the presentation June 16 in Leuven, Belgium:  “More Agility and Predictability with Visual Management and Kanban.”

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