Lean Software Engineering

Work flows through these processes until it is ready for the customer. People add value to the product, but they are not the value added. People use process to add value to the product. People design, compose, operate and manage processes. How people manage these processes is the subject of work standards and kaizen. Kaizen and work standards are the vehicle for creativity in process design.

A kanban system is a mechanism by which people manage processes. Kanban tokens should therefore be allocated to processes, and not people. Kanban should be allocated to analysis and not analysts, testing and not testers. Kanban should be distributed according to the value that is added by each process. If a process does not add a lot of value, then you should not spend a lot of time on it. This distribution of kanban helps you to judge the relative value of the investments in your processes.