How to release with Kanban?

Question

In Scrum, it is obvious that we could produce a demo after each sprint.

I don't know how to produce demos in Kanban since it doesn't has the sprint concept (I may be wrong).

Would you please enlighten me regarding how to make releases in Kanban?

Thanks for help and time.

Answer 1

When we were implementing Kanban at my last job, the releases went one of three ways:

1. Release every two weeks on a schedule.
2. If enough sticky notes end up in the "done" bucket on the board to merit an out-of-cycle release, notify the business unit that we're releasing so we can prevent getting too out of sync.
3. The business unit requires an out-of-cycle release for a specific feature of set of features that are needed immediately.

It was pretty open-ended, really.