Moving from Scrum to Kanban
Rachel Davies - Moving from Scrum to Kanban from NDCOslo on Vimeo. Preview Text: Many teams who are already using Scrum would like to know what benefits they can get by moving to Kanban. Dropping the...
View ArticleFocus in Chaos: Why I Like Kanban for Startups
It’s okay if you don’t know exactly where you’re going – because things are always changing – just so long as you’re focused on the Right Things. Preview Text: It drives me a little crazy every time...
View ArticleAgile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3
Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San Francisco, the testers were in Bangalore, and...
View ArticleKanban Questioning
Moving beyond the Visual part of the Kanban Method and beginning the process of collaboratively improving the system with policies that enable you to work more effectively can be challenging. When you...
View ArticleNetworked Kanban
I am wondering if maybe some people should try and replace their regular Kanban board with a networked Kanban variant. I love the principles behind Kanban. I really do! Despite the occasional clash...
View ArticleWhy Stretched Teams do Scrumban
A few years ago Corey Ladas wrote an article about an Agile approach he called “Scrumban”. As the name suggests, this is a variant of Scrum with certain Lean-Kanban characteristics. What he proposed...
View ArticlePersonal Kanban and Iterations, Day 2
I’ve made great progress on Day 1, and I wasn’t even in the office all day! Preview Text: And, since I’m cheating on how to do a real personal kanban, I thought I would at least describe for you how...
View ArticlePersonal Kanban and Iterations, Day 1
I use a form of personal kanban inside one-week iterations to finish my work and notice what I am not doing. I do this to maintain a cadence of blogging and to finish work. Did you notice that word,...
View ArticlePersonal Kanban and Iterations, Day 4
I’m still chugging along, making great progress. I took some interruptions yesterday, as many people do. They are not reflected on my kanban. They are in my calendar, which I am not showing you :-)...
View ArticleAgile Estimation in Practice
The longer I spend working as an agile coach, the more I find myself in disagreement with Hamlet. To estimate, or not to estimate? That is the question. Out of all of the agile practices which have...
View ArticlePersonal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5
I am still making progress, although it’s more difficult to see my progress today. Why? Because I did not get as much to done. Preview Text: One of my readers asked a question about the Urgent queue...
View ArticleThe Kanban Sandwich: A Bite-Size Recipe for Agile Work Flows at Scale
If you've been involved in Agile development for the past 10 or 15 years, you may have noticed that certain patterns of Agile application have emerged. The Scrum Patterns repository has captured at...
View ArticleEstimation and Measurement Approaches in Kanban System
The ultimate goal of agile methods is to provide delivering desired software accurately and as soon as possible to the customer. Agile methods do not mean too much at the point of quality. At this...
View ArticleThe Agile Response to a P1 Incident
How should a team respond to change? The simple answer is “they should respond by being agile”. Preview Text: It's reasonable to expect agile teams to handle change. Yet what does that mean for the...
View ArticleSprint Backlogs in Practice
"A whole leisure day before you, a good novel in hand, and the backlog only just beginning to kindle..." - Backlog Studies, by Charles Dudley Warner Preview Text: Sprint Backlogs mean different things...
View ArticleYour boss, the Invader from Mars
I was sitting at a desk, helping another Scrum Master to assess the impact of unplanned work that had been dumped on her team. Her eyes darted about as we talked, alert to the continuing threat to the...
View ArticleKanban: Engineer Killer?
Brian de Haaff has an interesting blog out this weekend (which I'm sure David J. Anderson will not be happy about) called "Kanban–The Secret Engineer Killer." Kanban–The Secret Engineer Killer Here's...
View ArticleKanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership
The Scrum Product Owner has a tough job. Translating business strategy into product strategy and ultimately into teeny-tiny user stories takes a ton of time and effort. Preview Text: Kanban gains...
View ArticleXanpan - Now Available
A bit over two years ago I started using the term Xanpan to describe the style of agile I advocate and help teams implement it. If it isn’t obvious, Xanpan - pronounced “Zan-pan” - is a cross between...
View ArticleKanban: A 2nd Generation Agile Method
A new post went up last week by the creator of Kanban for software, David J. Anderson. It's a reminder post telling us what should be our rational realization already - it doesn't matter if something...
View ArticleKanban Paper Airplane Factory
I went to the local Capital Kanban meetup yesterday evening. It was a bunch of Project Managers discussing Kanban and waste in IT. Preview Text: I highly encourage software developers to partake in...
View ArticleFrom the Agile Manifesto to Evolutionary Contract Models
"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position". - Mahatma Gandhi Contracts, and Why You...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Customize Your Agile Methods
You’re starting off with a new laptop. The OS is installed, but using it feels awkward. Nothing looks like it used to on your previous one. You’re really frustrated how slow you move around just...
View ArticleScrum to Lean Kanban: Some Problems and Pitfalls
Some months ago I wrote an article on how to transition between Scrum and a Lean Kanban operation. It's an important capability for an organization to have, because when a Scrum project finishes it is...
View ArticleScrumban - or How to get Leaner by Sprinting Less
"Sprints have killed many a man"- Galen of Pergamon, 129 - 200 AD Preview Text: In this article we consider a hybrid agile approach known as Scrumban, which can potentially address both project and...
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