Kanban Pull Principle

Notes

• Pull principle is a mechanism for controlling product development workflow.
• The upstream process isn't allowed to take more work unless it has capacity.
• A team only picks up the next piece of work from the previous stage when they have available capacity—they've completed other work, and their WIP won't exceed.
• The opposite is the push principle, in which team members finish their work and push along into the next processing step, ignoring capacity and WIP.

Backlinks

• The Principles of Product Development Flow
• Kanban Uses WIP Constraints to Control the Cycle Time
• Kanban
• The Kanban System Doesn't Make Assumptions About the Location of Bottlenecks
• The Local Constraints of the Kanban System Have an Impressive Feedback Speed