KANBAN IN THE
SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT
Alexey Tregubov, Jo Ann Lane
OUTLINE
Overview of KSS Network
 Eliminating waste in KSS Network
 Blocked work item identification and
rescheduling
 Future work
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OVERVIEW OF KSS NETWORK
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Execu ve/Stakeholder
Management
SLA establishment and monitoring
Strategic planning
Capability priori za on
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Product/Domain Engineering
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KSS
Users
KSS
Needs
Backlog*
User Support
Customer rela ons
Ini al Triage
Capability Engineering
Analyze needs and alterna ves
Refine capabili es
Develop requirements
Allocate requirements
Product Team
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Product SE
Iden fy SW Features
Allocate features to SWDT
Integrate features into requirements
KSS
KSS
Form cross organiza onal teams
Cross-product and specialty engineering
KSS
SW Development Team
Validate and fully enable capabili es
Work Flow
Visibility
* All organiza ons can contribute to the Needs Backlog
KSS
Pa ent Safety Domain Team
KSS
Network Domain Team
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HOW DO WE ELIMINATE WASTE?
We have know the current state
 We have know what is blocking a capability
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BLOCKING TASK IDENTIFICATION
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EXAMPLE
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PRIORITY CALCULATION
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Priority calculation based on the following:
Business value
 Class of service (eg. Standard, Important, Date
Certain, Critical Expedite)
 Estimated effort
 Specialties required
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OVERVIEW OF KSS NETWORK
Dash
Execu ve/Stakeholder
Management
SLA establishment and monitoring
Strategic planning
Capability priori za on
Dash
Product/Domain Engineering
Dash
KSS
Users
KSS
Needs
Backlog*
User Support
Customer rela ons
Ini al Triage
Capability Engineering
Analyze needs and alterna ves
Refine capabili es
Develop requirements
Allocate requirements
Product Team
Dash
Product SE
Iden fy SW Features
Allocate features to SWDT
Integrate features into requirements
KSS
KSS
Form cross organiza onal teams
Cross-product and specialty engineering
KSS
SW Development Team
Validate and fully enable capabili es
Work Flow
Visibility
* All organiza ons can contribute to the Needs Backlog
KSS
Pa ent Safety Domain Team
KSS
Network Domain Team
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FUTURE WORK
How do we calculate priorities considering
hierarchical work breakdown structure and work
dependencies?
 How do we implement clicking task
identification?
 How can we simulate this process?
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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