Kanban Improvements: Emergent Behavior
With only a few principles which Kanban prescribes it can’t be treated as a method which directly shows how to organize a team or the way it works. What more, it is advised to start...
March 20, 2013
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2013
Why Limiting WIP Works
This presentation reveals the mechanics of limiting WIP and identify false beliefs which we often embrace in software development. It explains how these Lean and Kanban mechanics can be exploited to improve processes in both...
March 7, 2013
Measure and Manage Flow in Practice
Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their...
January 18, 2013
2012
Lean, Kanban and Large-Scale Agile
Agile methods work beautifully for a single team. But what do you do when you have multiple, interdependent teams, all working on a single product or product suite? How can Agile scale without losing sight...
November 22, 2012
A Kanban Team and Their Contracts with Partners
One very important property in Kanban is called “make process policies explicit”. This includes well-defined interfaces to upstream as well as downstream partners. Kanban tries to define these interfaces on a very abstract level, because...
November 8, 2012
Scrumban: Combining Scrum and Kanban
Corey Ladas wrote a classic essay on Scrum-ban where he discusses Scrum and Kanban hybrids. He presents the concept of index card and explains that Kanban is more than just a work request on a...
September 11, 2012
State of Kanban & Lean in the Software Development World
It has been 5 years since David Anderson and Rick Garber first presented the Kanban Method to a limited audience at small conference in Chicago. This session gives the Lean and Kanban community in the...
August 29, 2012
A Lean/Kanban Approach to Teams
Teams are not mentioned in the definition of Kanban. In his blog post, Yuval Yeret discusses the impact on team structure when an organization is trying to adopt Kanban. He proposes a categorization of teams...
March 21, 2012
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