Have you heard of Six Sigma ? Kanban is what they use at Toyota – similar to Six Sigma. I would just google it and learn more about it
Kanban is a new technique for managing a software development process in a highly efficient way. Kanban underpins Toyota's “just-in-time” (JIT) production system. Although producing software is a creative activity and therefore different to mass-producing cars, the underlying mechanism for managing the production line can still be applied.
Kanban reveals bottlenecks dynamically
Kanban is incredibly simple, but at the same time incredibly powerful. In its simplest incarnation, a kanban system consists of a big board on the wall with cards or sticky notes placed in columns with numbers at the top.
Limiting work-in-progress reveals the bottlenecks so you can address them.
The cards represent work items as they flow through the development process represented by the columns. The numbers at the top of each column are limits on the number of cards allowed in each column.
The limits are the critical difference between a kanban board and any other visual storyboard. Limiting the amount of work-in-progress (WIP), at each step in the process, prevents overproduction and reveals bottlenecks dynamically so that you can address them before they get out of hand.
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