Pull System Task Assignment

Overview

It's a Lean Technique for reducing waste of any production process.

In other words, it lets you consume only when you have a demand, at the right time.

Teams pull work as they finish what they started while keeping their focus on the highest priorities.

Why?

It is to build products based on actual demand and not on forecasts.

🥅 Goals

1. Reduce waste of resources

2. Scaling the optimal capacity of the team

3. Deliver on-demand items faster

4. To be predictable

Checklist

• - Add a ruleset for the project's pull system. For example, don't pull any cards if the assigned card is not Done yet.

• - Limit work in progress or add a limit to necessary columns inboard

• - Add indicators where the card is ready for pulling. For example, cards under To Do are refined and ready for development.

• - Apply regular retrospective, to identify existing wastes and achieve an ideal team workflow.

• - Add Swimlanes and Components to categorize responsibilities when pulling a task.

⚠️ TAKE NOTE:

Pulling a task means that anyone can just pull any task, there are cases where a specific devs have a specialize knowledge that fit to solve that task

You can make use of the Brown Bag Session so that the solution could be shared throughout the team.

Resources

1. Kanban Pull System
2. What is a Pull System?
3. Lean Manufacturing Wastes: Muda
4. Monte Carlo Analysis
5. Achieving Excellence Through Flow